Comic #3725: the-importance-of-education

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Panel 1: Sally: "Sally, you should read more classics." Adult: "But you never read books like this." Sally: "Well, I’m an adult."

Panel 2: Adult: "See, for the first eighteen years of life it is ethically imperative that children be forced to learn arithmetic and classic literature."

Panel 3: Adult: "Then, from eighteen to twenty-two, it is crucial they learn a great deal about a narrow and arbitrarily-categorized region of knowledge."

Panel 4: Adult: "But the moment they enter adulthood, they must learn only the exact minimum needed to not get fired from their current job."

Panel 5: Adult: "Anything beyond that is an affectation."

Panel 6: Sally: "Do people start off crazy, or just end up that way?" Adult: "I dunno. They don’t talk about it on TV."

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