Cole told Edwin that his demonstration with the stick made more sense than all the weird things the counselors and the psychologists told him. Why did Edwin say this was true?

Edwin was using a living metaphor to convey his point. It was a metaphor that Cole could relate to immersed in the cold water of experience. The councilors merely talked down to Cole with no sense of living the experience.

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