ABSTRACT
According to the cultural view, proverbs originate and become common knowledge within societies. On one level that is true. The real work, however, is done by the individual human brain. Marvelous though the brain is, it must on the average become 7 years old before it can appreciate the double entrendre of proverbs, and this only when the conditions that subserve understanding are optimal. Why do children find it difficult to understand proverbs? How are intelligence and proverb understanding related? Brains, children, and intelligence, these are the themes of this chapter.
