Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 11, 2015

you don’t say

I remember being that age! Boy, was I a brat.

That’s the life.At 6 it is crystal clear, that teachers are smarter than you. At 16 it seems stupid idea.At 26 you understand that they are.And at 36 you realize, that actually, they are not.

…but we’ll help you find your talents.

I think that there will always be some students that are smarter than some of their teachers, that’s just a given, but none of the students should be more knowledgeable than the teachers in their given subjects. If the students are then there’s a problem.

Not necessarily smarter, just know more.

I see.

Most of my teachers were great, but I can remember three that, at the time, I thought were incompetent. Now, with the clarity of hindsight, I can see that I might have been wrong about one of them.

Smarter than I. You jerk.

as mark twain said about his dad, something to the effect that at 16 it was a wonder to him how ignorant the old man was. and by 21, it was amazing how much wiser the old man had grown

I’m sure your English teacher would be quick to point out that it should be “smarter than I”, not “smarter than me”.