Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 21, 2018

This was Calvin’s Fredo speech:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9E9n6GHC8

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So falling down multiple times isn’t a waste of your time?

I thought parents taught kids how to dress, not schools.

I disagree with Calvin; 3 months is still too much school.

Well, Hobbes, at least your curiosity isn’t going to kill you.

I wish you could just go into school, pick up a book and learn things. Instead, it’s all about fitting into the group (or failing to). Some say that school serves the purpose of “socializing” kids. I just wish socialization wasn’t a “sink or swim” game!

Sounds a lot like me at that age, except I mostly got my pants on right. I was mostly right about school, too…

I don’t recall ever getting a lesson in first grade on putting on your pants one leg at a time.

Brown in back, yellow in front = How to put your shorts on.

Just remembered, be VERY careful with that zipper!

With his talent, who needs education?

♪ We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control…♪

If brains were dynamite he would be a danger to his own earwax….

Mom let him go out the door like that???

Love the Hobbes eyeroll

Anyone who would sled in the air is not so smart.

Panel #3: the 2 legs in one. I know someone like that…

Dropped out of high school because I knew all I needed to know. 40 years of working menial, low paying jobs has been a huge dose of karma.

“We are all born ignorant, but it takes a lot of work to remain stupid.” Ben Franklin.

Forgetting to zip up is bad. Forgetting to zip down is much worse.

I’d say any kid his age who knows the meaning of the word fallacy is ,at least, articulate! ;o]

I knew how to read when I started school, and was appalled to discover I had to stay for an entire twelve years! Oh, the horror! The indignity! I figured if I could read, I could get the rest of it on my own. And boy! Did I tell my parents all about it, too.

After 3 months he already knows how to do math with fractions.

Not just 12 years, Calvin. 12 years that gradually gets harder over time.

Will anyone tell Calvin he’ll be in first grade for the next ten years or should I?

Am I supposed to use both pants legs? I thought the other one was a spare.

It’s about time parents taught their kids a lot of things that the schools are not responsible for!!!

School, like almost everything in life, is what you make of it. I hated school. It was too easy for me and it was boring. I quickly realized the double standard that was in place; I could get away with a lot of stuff that would have had other students expelled. Why? Because I was college-bound. I never had to try with the exception of geometry and I got a ‘D’ in geometry my only mark not an ‘A’ . I got a rude awakening my first semester in college (where you had to actually work to learn) when I failed everything. Ironically, I became a public school teacher. Schools primarily exist to teach students to sit down, shut up and follow instructions, and if you are college-bound the directions become more complex. I resigned long before I intended to because of NCLB. I wanted to foster critical thinking and wasn’t allowed to. The last thing the powers-that-be want is a nation of critical thinkers. So, although I agree with much of what is posted above, Triker2011’s comment was/is heart-wrenching.

This made me laugh out loud!

I don’t think I ever owned pants with legs wide enough for me to do that.

Some people never grow out of that.

Stubborn and stupid no way to go through life. It’s probably the worst way, in fact.

Schooling is a place for kids to socialise and learn the enviromment in a leisure way. Unfortunately the educationists think they have to teach the children to survive in the rat race.

Hobbes putting both of your legs into the same pants leg by mistake is relatively easy. Now what really takes being a genius and knowing how to use your smarts is being able to put both of your legs into one pants leg and then finishing putting on your pants by putting both legs into the other pants leg. Being able to zip the pants up after that and being able to buckle your belt earns extra points.

school isn’t really gonna help with keeping kids from putting two legs in one pant leg. All it does is teach useless knowledge.