Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 12, 2022

The opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The more you know, the more you know how much you STILL don’t know!

Had the same Principal at two different schools. Even as a sixth grader I never considered what background education he might have had. But as a Principal he was strict about rules, but fair in their application, at least in my mind. If there was no damage done and you had a reasonable explanation for why you broke them there were no severe repercussions. Your parents would be notified, no getting out of that. It was made clear why the rule was in place and that there had better not be a second violation. But he treated you with respect, the same as he did the adults, and for the most part all the kids showed him respect as well.

Did he know that he would be using all of that knowledge just to corral a bunch of know-it-all nine year-olds?

The more I learn, the more I understand how little I know.

I called it yesterday.

The major incentive for many teachers: A Masters or PhD degree puts them at a higher level on the salary schedule.

The higher your degree, the longer you’ve been indoctrinated.

“Be not wise in your own eyes…” Proverbs 3:7

“He who knows and knows he knows knows not. He who knows and knows he knows not knows.”

I would be severely surprised if any the “experts” weighing in here on the interrelationship between faculty pay, faculty education levels, and student education has spent 1 second working in education (you know – how you’d have a clue about it?).

Or even reading a book since high school.

2 qualities that make for a better world: curiosity and humility

Rare is the person who has a lot of secondary schooling and doesn’t tell everyone as often as possible

The more I learn, the more I learn just how much I have to learn…

“There’s a lot of people” should be “there’re a lot of people.” Some doctor.

Alissandra, what is the temperature in here?

I don’t know about that

God, grant me the humility to know the things I cannot know, the learning to know the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When I earned my PhD, I was pretty convinced I didn’t know much. When I earned my second doctorate, I knew even less.

The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

A true expert, in any field, is more aware of what they do not know.

Well played, Jef.

You’ve done a ton of well played for quite a while.

Smart man he found out just how much more there is to know.

A wise man realizes there will always be more that he doesn’t know than what he does know.

And in a vision Iphigenia saw her brother – Orestes,who was being chased by the EumenidesAnd he cried out in anguish,“Oh ye gods, who knows what it is to be running?Only he who is running, running, running knows!”https://lyricstranslate.com/en/peter-schickele-iphegenia-brooklyn-lyrics.html