Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 12, 2022

Long live the Queen… I mean Mrs. Wormwood!

You need to earn your independence, Calvin. Of course that probably won’t happen sooo…yeah.

If Calvin can make it through school, he’ll be an even better lawyer than his dad.

The second and fourth amendments don’t get a lot of respect either

You would have been better off being ignorant of that whole “ignorance is bliss” concept.

The saying doesn’t SAY that ignorance IS bliss. It suggests that IF it WERE, then it’s foolish to attain wisdom. Actually, this was in reference to Adam and Eve being ejected from Eden (bliss) because they had eaten of the apple.

Who knew that Miss Wormwood was a Tory?

“Help, help, I’m being repressed!”

You’re only promised the*persuit* of happiness. Nobody said anything about achieving it.

What’s so funny is that Calvin thinks he’s resisting education, but he’s obviously soaked up an excellent vocabulary and more intellectual acuity than he’d ever admit!

If he is anything like i was, and most kids probably, he can sense when the teachers are not teaching well. (i actually ran away from kindergarten)

I think it is too late for Calvin when it comes to ignorance. I doubt that many of his classmates would have been able to put this kind of logic together. Agree or not with the logic, putting this together takes non-ignorance.

Calvin should read the entire poem (“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” by Thomas Gray) from which that quote is taken. Gray talks about the heedless innocence of the young, and the painful disillusionment they will face as adults. A portion of which goes like this: “Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around ‘em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune’s baleful train!” And finishes like this: “No more; where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise.” Which is to say, it would be folly to shatter that innocence and subject the youngster to all that pain. And, as Phssthpok observed, “pursuing” does not necessarily result in catching!

Bliss out man!

What a thrill it must be to be a teacher to Alvin!!!

Calvin is indeed fortunate. If he made it to the playground, he probably would have come face-to-face with Moe.

And we all know what would happen next!!

If ignorance is bliss, the complete ignorance is complete bliss.

Maybe you should have started with “Since” instead of “if”…

You’re forced to attend only. They can’t force you to learn anything.

The inevitable consequences of becoming an adult who cannot read or write enough to participate in more than low-paid work, many forms of which themselves still required basic skills, is however also not going to be their problem.

Ditch digging as a future…

At least we know he paid attention in Civics class.

Nice try, Calvin, but I didn’t think much of your chances.

SMARTass, little twerp !

Sic semper tyrannis!

This kids got a mouth on him…lol

I suspect there’s a bit of mixing politics and religion, or at least philosophy, in that argument, but I’m thinking there is a Trump lawyer out there taking notes. Sounds like a straw they could reach for. Keep charging hours team.

‘’Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I’m being repressed!’’

from Monty Python and " The search for putin’s Heart "

Those monarchists just don’t like fun.

Calvin needs his own classroom on a separate island somewhere!

Birth of a Libertarian

The Birth and impending destruction of a “sovereign citizen.”

Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

“Is it a right to remain ignorant?”

“I don’t know, but I refuse to find out!”

Someone tweet this strip to the UK’s new King-stat! He has grandkids! He’ll get it! ;)

Ignorance and innocence are not necessarily the same. As much as we might wish them to be.

Don’t go quoting fascist government slogans from the dystopian novel “1984” to try to support your dubious point.

It’s like people who tell you Shakespeare said not to lend or borrow money. It was the fatally foolish character Polonius who said, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between an author’s own thoughts and the words he puts into character’s mouths.

LOL at the last panel! Calvin can’t stand a chance against Queen Fragg!

That Calvin is quite an orator. Big words too.

Gotta love Calvin’s logic…

The teachers aught to take him into custody. Spaceman Spiff in complete danger right now!

The teacher would not stop him. She could teach the other kids much better with Calvin gone.

That should be “inalienable,” right?

I’ll bet there’s a hundred grease slick lawyers that would jump on Calvin’s case!

I used to believe that ignorance is bliss, until I realized that the saying was akin to “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” As George Carlin said, ask Lincoln or JFK.

We have separation of church and state. Calvin is angling for the separation of school and state as well.

Well said, Calvin! Meet you on the swings!

his logic is sound… enough

With all the ignorance today, you’d expect there to be more bliss. Sadly, there is much more unhappiness

Calvin can’t add 3 plus 4, but he’s got political theory down pat.

With no knowledge there’s ignorance. With ignorance comes incompetence and manipulation. That doesn’t sound like happiness Calvin. You’re denying yourself the chance to be smart and use it to further the goal for happiness.

Calvin cannot comprehend that long term happiness is not defined by immediate, emotive gratification.

Reality bites hard.

UK King. King of England, Scotland, Wales, Nothern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. etc. etc.

Calvin you need to attend political college with that kind of aptitude.

You might think that Calvin would have to be pretty well educated to form that argument. I guess he just mistakenly showed that he has and enjoys learning. Ooops!

Logically his argument is correct.