Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 20, 2021

¿La educación no es maravillosa? (Isn’t education marvelous?)

Yep. That’s the way it works. Get used to it.

The more you learn you learn there’s more to know.

Achievement Unlocked: Adulthood.

“ I have strived for learning and knowledge all my life, to finally come to the knowledge, that I know nothing.“

That’s not a problem, that’s a gift.

The more I learn, the more I know I need to learn.

The more questions you know the answer to, the more problems you can fix. If they knew all of the answers, they wouldn’t need you.

Just like all intelligent people.

Very Socratic… Or what Plato tells us is Socratic. Socrates never wrote anything. Most of what we ‘know’ of Socrates is from the dialogue of Plato (who as a young boy met Socrates, but didn’t study with him). The problem is that when ‘Socrates’ opens his mouth in Plato’s Dialogues it is the philosophy of Plato the spills out. But I guess the asking of questions agrees with Xenophon’s picture of Socrates. Xenophon had studied with Socrates. Just don’t believe any of the ‘answers’ Plato puts in the mouth of Socrates.

Question … everything.

Always having more questions is good, except when you’re assigned so much pointless busy work that you don’t have time to look for the answers.

That’s life, in my nutshell.

Gracie’s critical thinking skills are developing nicely.

The benefit of learning. Keep the bookshelves full as a reminder that we have a lot to learn.

That’s how you know you’re doing it correctly.

The more I learn, the less I Know.

Sounds like the guiding principle of scientific research!

Every book I read directs to to other books to read and so on and so forth. Life is too short but it’s not boring, unless you want it to be of course….

It is impossible for a finite mind to hold infinite wisdom.

That great feeling you get when you learn something new? Done right, it’s a snowball effect; done perfectly it turns into an avalanche.

There is always more to learn.

It’s a wonderfully vicious cycle.

The Dunning Kruger effect strikes home!

I think she’s got it! By George, she’s got it!

This is true learning!

Welcome to the “Neverending Story”, Gracie; enjoy the journey!

I discovered that when I was 17. Only later finding out it is an old truism over 2,000 year old.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

- Charles Bukowski

Ah, the circle of life. You got it kiddo!

Yes. And so it goes.

And that problem never ends – thankfully…

Then you’re doing it right.

The problem is that Questions multiply even faster than Martian Flat Cats.

Or Tribbles as they are also known to some people.

From Wikipedia:

Shortly before the episode was produced Kellam de Forest Research pointed out the similarities between Gerrold’s creatures and the Martian flat cats from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel The Rolling Stones (1952), and recommended purchasing the rights to the novel. Instead, Star Trek producer Gene L. Coon contacted Heinlein by telephone and asked that he waive the similarity. Heinlein did, but later regretted the decision when the Star Trek franchise continued to use tribbles in their productions.

Gerrold discusses the matter of potential inadvertent plagiarism in his 1973 book, The Trouble with Tribbles, but he does not admit to it. He claims that instead of money or credit, Heinlein asked only for a signed copy of the script, and that afterwards Heinlein wrote to him dismissing the similarity, “we both owe something to Ellis Parker Butler…and possibly to Noah.” However, Gerrold’s account does not agree entirely with Heinlein’s own recollection of the matter as related in private correspondence cited in his authorized autobiography.

That’s because you are smart, Gracie. You thirst for knowledge.

Yup. That’s how it works