Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 11, 2013

Easy learning!

The problem is broken down into an easily discarded chunks.

Atta boy!

American education at its best! (sarcasm)

You can cover a lot of history that way,its probably cooked up history to suite one group or another anyway.

Yup, that is me

History is not names and dates. Real history is people and thoughts and events. I learned this when I discovered diaries and letters. Maybe I’m just a snoop, but I love reading “I was there” history. What will future historians do, now that blogs and email have taken over? In a hundred years all of this technology will be obsolete and inaccessible, while we are still able to decipher stone tablets, engravings and papyri of the past couple of millenia and more.“The reader would not believe that such things could be, but I was there and I saw it,” says Izaak Walton somewhere in his writings. Some of us are still reading it, too, Zack.

every thing not easy on our life…

I read somewhere that drinking scotch was bad for me; I immediately stopped reading.

You should probably ask yourself if you feel lucky. Because someone is going to care that you don’t.

He doesn’t even learn from his own history.

Way to go, Calvin.

Just don’t fall asleep while you are in mid sentence.

xxx

“I care not.” —Maceo, the chicken. :P

I used to read the first sentence of each paragraph and call it done.

It’s all BS anyway. History is written by the victors.

Read ‘Little Big Man’ by Thomas Berger, one of the best so-called fiction stories of the early United States history. A great story.

Calvin breaks down into little pieces in front of a big problem.

It is only a lot of reading if you do it.

History is… based on a true story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7Q5UX_R0U

Agreed. If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance,baffle them with BS!

By not caring, Calvin avoids a breakdown.

Calvin threw the book behind him; Miss Wormwood will throw the book at him.

I don’t really care about history either.

why read about it it’ll just repeat itself

I don’t see how this kid is still in elementary school, when clearly, from what I’ve seen him say in previous strips, he is smart, and should be skipping grades. But then again, he gets himself into trouble at school too. Lol

One panel at a time.

The “history” that we are producing in this world these days is so intense and depressing that I would throw out the book myself….‘cept I can’t of course….

To true, Ghost..Too sadly true….

If every teacher explained history and literature this way, then maybe kids would find it MUCH more interesting!!!!! ;-)

Andy Griffith tells the story of Paul Revere’s Ride

Andy Griffith tells the story of Romeo & Juliet

It’s amazing how Calvin can be such a downright genius and such a downright idiot at the same time.

Do I even care?…no! Will my mom kill me if I don’t do it?…yes