Antonio and perspective

I took the kids to a lookouts game on Sunday afternoon. We spent most of the afternoon moving from row to row of the grandstand seats hunting shade. At one point we moved from one side of the field - fairly close to the action, to the other side - way up in the stands. At that point Antonio said somthing like "The players are bigger up here" I totally didn't understand what he meant. He repeated. "Aren't the players so much bigger when we are up here?" I realized he was talking about perspective. An art teacher in the row below us said "Man he's asking the right questions, isn't he?" I think he had the concepts mixed up - thinking that as you moved away from objects, they got bigger. So he thought that the players were really big, since they now appeared smaller. (or something like that) "No, Antonio - as you move away the players appear smaller - but they are still the same size, somewhere between how tall you are and how tall I am." I'm not sure he got the difference, but it left me amazed at the way our teaching is coloring his perspective of reality. What responsibility. On another note - he was quite disappointed that we didn't catch a pop foul. "Papi - next time will you get two baseballs? So I can have one and Elena can have the other?" Uff - the crushing weight of elevated exectations...