For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 05, 2020

that’s an education for you

Yes but the BIG QUESTION is…how much of that education will you be using when you enter the working world? ;D

And at 10/50 degrees, the Fahrenheit temperature is five times Celsius!

Hopefully you can retain all this minutiae when you one day are a contestant on Jeopardy!

Lynn you are an amazing artist and story teller, I and millions of other people look forward to your stories every day. Thank you Lynn

Well, I actually used algebra once on a problem I was having at work, don’t remember what it was now, and don’t remember how to use algebra, either.

Oh, so true, ’Elizabeth, so true—thought many the same thoughts at the same time as you ! ! ! !

My mother was big on “shoulda said”, clever retorts that always occurred to her after the fact.

Education has created the most rigid caste system in the world. The first thing employers do when going over job applications is to see whether you have a full and complete college transcript. If you do, welcome to the club. If you don’t, you’re a second class citizen.

I’m 63 and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve relied on knowing who invented the microscope. Comes up in conversation once a week. Also the quadratic equation – a mainstay of my daily life.

In addition to my university education, I went to an electronics tech school. There I learned a graphical method for simplifying logic statements. I have used that as much or more in my career in programming than what I factually learned at university. I once simplified a page and a half of COBOL code into three-quarters of a page by getting rid of redundant logical checks.

It also applies to the clever speeches you could have made, the smarter things you could have done, and the kinder actions you could have taken. So many regrets.

Yup, happens to me all the time, though it’s usually on the drive home.

Paul Simon: ♪ “When I think back on all the crap I’ve learned in high school, It’s a wonder I can think at all” ♫

I spy a French Braid!

An education is what you have left after all the facts have gone.

We would have matrices math for a couple of weeks and none of my teachers could tell me what they were used for. It is the math equivalent of spinning plates while solving Rubik cubes.

Elizabeth should have goovered her notes over the weekend.

Public school: You get what you pay for.

I figured this would have been today’s strip, but it could be tomorrow’s. The moral of the story would be “God knows I tried to give you kids a break”:

Miss Edwards: “I cannot fathom how you kids stunk it up; we goovered the material in class! Be grateful I have decided to grade on a curve.”

Elizabeth: “You mean half the class is going to flunk??”

Miss Edwards: “Do not complain! If I graded on a straight percentage, the whole class would have flunked!”

Another blackout?

Rote memorization is prohibited in my classroom.