Bluer Rather Than Pinker | The Nation   Bluer Rather Than Pinker
• Share   • Decrease text size Increase text size  Before I knew
that school buses were yellow, I experienced them as tangerine.
I argued with my betters about this. If a good part of education
is training the judgment to accept the consensus view, then I
was educated to understand what adults were convinced of: that
school buses are yellow in the same way roses are red and skies
are blue. They certainly aren't tangerine, or cheddar, or as the
Crayola box of my youth judiciously instructed, "yellow-orange."
About the Author  Ange Mlinko Ange Mlinko  Also by the Author
Denise Levertov’s poetic communion with the world.   Alma
Deutscher might sympathize. From the time she began speaking,
she was the subject of a linguistic experiment: her father
refrained from associating "sky" and "blue" to see if she would
spontaneously put them together—a natural equation, like two and
two making four. It didn't happen, so eventually her father
started ask