Answer to Question #293281 in English for Rivai

Question

Explain the quotation by Eleanor Roosevelt, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Answer 1

It means strong minds discuss how things could or could not be. Average minds discuss things that might ot might not be happening, have happened or will happen. Weak minds discuss other people and what they do or might do, have do ne or might do. It means that those who discuss people as an end to itself are shallow. Unfortunately, a fair segment of the media and our population today dedicate themselves to discussing people. You have tabloid magazines, celebrity gossip sites, and people who follow celebrity gossip like it is the central goal of their lives.