We Don't Need No Education
This article is long and redundant, so I'm going to ask you to read only the first third of it. However, there's this wonderful anecdote near the end I don't want you to miss:
In my high school French class we were supposed to read Hugo's Les Miserables. I don't think any of us knew French well enough to make our way through this enormous book. Like the rest of the class, I just skimmed the Cliff's Notes. When we were given a test on the book, I noticed that the questions sounded odd. They were full of long words that our teacher wouldn't have used. Where had these questions come from? From the Cliff's Notes, it turned out. The teacher was using them too. We were all just pretending.As a schoolkid I must have been viewed as unpopular by a lot of people, but as the article puts it, I was too busy balancing a glass of water on my head to notice that I was in the middle of a soccer game. I would like to claim that the social hierarchy game was something I rejected as the result of a mature and thoughtful decision, but the reality was, I never noticed it. Maybe the fact that I score 31 on this test has something to do with it.
(Hat tip goes to Instapundit, and also see this blog post.)
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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