Is it true the smaller a pencil gets the older and wiser it becomes?
915132
Well the more you do with a pencil the more you have to sharpen it. So its gets smaller with experience.\n\nIs that what you meant? lol
965911
I have a wooden one in my classroom that has lasted several years of constant touching by teenagers.  It is harder to tangle the lines on this one than on the metal one I used to have.
403742
Yes, it was Konrad Gesner.\n\nIt dates (we think) to 1565, when Konrad von Gesner, a Swiss-German naturalist, devised a wooden container filled with graphite for the purpose of drawing and writing. Refined, the invention—arguably history's most practically useful communication tool—became universally popular. If you keep a sharpener handy and can avoid breaking the point, you ostensibly can get about 45,000 words or 35 miles of sketched lines from the average pencil.\n\nIncidentally, the common term "lead pencil" is misleading (please excuse the play on spellings). At one time, graphite wrongly was considered to be synonymous with lead.
325724
Not from today's pencils because it is really graphite, which is not poisonous. However real LEAD is poisonous because it causes lead poisoning (logical, right?). \n\n(Learn from history: Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous in the Middle Ages because they were typically only eaten by the richer families who had lead plates. The acids in tomatoes brought out the lead into the food, and when the food was consumed it caused lead poisoning.)
1111414
bigger is almost always better
966073
No.  It might of looked smaller as the macrocosm expanded.\nA small object beside a small object doen't look small.  But a small object beside a big object looks small.
713640
There used to be students when I was in school that would take thier pencils and hit them on the desk the entire time.They would have to throw things away every 2 minutes...sharpen pencil every 3 or 4 minutes. eating chips/rattling paper.
83818
Easier to draw.  Less clumsey looking.
472330
almost always true. like your brain, if you don't use it, it will atrophy...
748993
Well i have written in pen for most of my life. Up until my last years in high school it's mostly been pen. I feels like a step into adulthood with a pen. It's kinda symbolic. I relate pencils with childhood and pens with adulthood. How, you ask? as a kid, most problems could be fixed and changed with ease. No worries, with a pencil just erase the mistakes. But as an adult, problems seem like you're in hell and can't be removed as easily. as with a pen, the mistakes are much more difficult to erase or get rid of. But yeah,  i like writing with a pen more. :)
456043
ick!! mine are like a little smaller then peperoni and i have always heard how nice they are.
75655
I suppose in time it will die out.  Our sun is nothing more than a star and they do fade. As for whether or not it gets smaller or not but it will fade, get cooler, and less bright.  I would think that meant getting smaller too but I am not sure.
46511
sometimes it depends what it's about.not as much as i use to
175785
buy the proper lead size and then push the pen as though you were pushing out more lead, but instead take a lead (from your purchase) and ease it into the slot.  Generally you can remove the back end of the pencil and toss the new leads in and then click until it catches and the lead comes out to your desired length
37267
I think as they grow older they sometimes try to reinvent themselves. Usually they find their way back to their original sound. I'm still holding out. It won't be long.....just watch. :)
672380
only if you're planning a diabolical plot to steal all the pens in the world and send them back to pen island so we alll have to use pencils agian like the 1400s BCE\nactually. the pen came first. so you'd actually be modernizing us. :)
829625
Not sure why now.....but years ago when my kids were learning to write   all the specialists said if you think they are tending towards left-handed..........hand them everything in their right hand   pencil, fork, etc.   Seems they used to think left-handed was not a good thing, and it was better to teach them to be righty's.