Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 11, 2010
March 10, 2010
March 12, 2010
Transcript:
Dad: How'd you do on that math assignment we helped you with? Baldo: I got one wrong. Dad: Hmmm... this shows five wrong answers. Baldo: Right, I got one wrong... Baldo: And you guys got four wrong.
Gracie doesn’t know everything, but Gracie’s smart enough to look things up when she wants to know something; we’ve seen that on many occasions. She doesn’t make pronouncements about things that lie outside the boundaries of her knowledge, and if she HAD been consulted about Baldo’s homework, she probably would not have given him answers that turned out to be incorrect. Sergio and Tia Carmen, on the other hand, may very well have undue confidence in the “correctness” of the misinformation they provide. A lot of older folks have that failing.
By heaven, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. – Polonius, Hamlet (W. Shakespeare)