I never meant to imply that Calvin is a great person or good company. I was saying that his problems with school and being social aren’t caused by any inherent flaw in Calvin. Like with so many people, it’s a matter of growing up and figuring out the “why”s for himself. He can learn something useful from school, but as I said, that’s something that’s not yet apparent to him. (It may have been apparent to you, since you say you wanted to learn it. I was also eager to learn through my first few years of school; there was so much I wanted to be able to do. If I hadn’t had outside motivations though, I would have hated being “forced” to learn.) The same principle applies to his social life: He alienates himself because he can’t understand other people (he’s not properly objective yet). Neither of these make him irredeemable.
I never meant to imply that Calvin is a great person or good company. I was saying that his problems with school and being social aren’t caused by any inherent flaw in Calvin. Like with so many people, it’s a matter of growing up and figuring out the “why”s for himself. He can learn something useful from school, but as I said, that’s something that’s not yet apparent to him. (It may have been apparent to you, since you say you wanted to learn it. I was also eager to learn through my first few years of school; there was so much I wanted to be able to do. If I hadn’t had outside motivations though, I would have hated being “forced” to learn.) The same principle applies to his social life: He alienates himself because he can’t understand other people (he’s not properly objective yet). Neither of these make him irredeemable.