The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for August 26, 2009
August 25, 2009
August 27, 2009
Transcript:
Riley: Is it true that the man who is truly educated understands he knows very little? Huey: Yes. Riley: Great! So if I just realize now that I don't know anything, I don't need to waste the next decade going to school. Huey: Huh?
blackman2732 over 15 years ago
Caught ya slippin’, Huey. Wish I had thought of that before finishing graduate school.
privacyinvasion over 15 years ago
Affirming the consequent — my favorite fallacy.
JohnHerbison over 15 years ago
As Alexander Pope said:
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again
Potrzebie over 15 years ago
I recall someone saying (Milton?) that a degree isn’t a certificate of knowing-it-all, but a license to learn.
And every year that I grow older I’m not any wiser, just more aware of how much I do not know.