Stretching Beyond the Bounds of our Education

I've always wondered why people feel, when they are younger that they can do anything and as they reach an older age, that sense of superhero abilities seems to fade. Maybe it is the world view cynic in me, but I think has something to do with the world's impression on our lives. It is as if we are students learning the ways of the world, but the world wants us to think that it is not possible for us to be great, amazing, interesting people with the ability to change the world. I believe that every child can lead an army against anything and it is only when we are told we can't do something that it comes into our minds that maybe there are things we are not capable of doing. It makes me think of Finding Nemo. Marlon keeps trying to protect Nemo from the horrors of the world, but by doing so he makes Nemo feel over protected. Through out the movie Marlon finds himself saying things like "you can't, you just can't," and other such words to extinguish the thoughts of greatness in Nemo's mind. Nemo gets that instilled in his mind and when he is in the tank, getting sucked into the propeller, he says he can't because of his fin, and only someone who is cut off from the greatness of the world- the true extraordinary expanse that it is, an tell Nemo that he can do anything. It is almost as if we have to be taken out of the world to truly understand how we can succeed in it. Every human has the ability to do great things, it is just weather we chose to use those abilities or not.