Comic #5891: culture-2

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Comic Description:

• Panel 1: A classroom setting with two students at desks. One student, a boy with brown hair, raises his hand. The teacher, an older woman with dark hair and wearing a red shirt, looks at him. The boy asks: "Teacher why? Why do you make us learn books by dead people written in dead ways of speaking?" The teacher responds: "That's your culture."

• Panel 2: The same boy continues speaking, stating: "Medieval Britain is not my culture!" Another student, a girl with dark hair, looks on. The boy adds: "I mean being dead."

• Panel 3: The teacher, still smiling, explains: "For most of existence you will be dead. You have this in common with Plato and Shakespeare and Borges and Tao Yuanming!"

• Panel 4: The teacher gestures with enthusiasm, saying, "We are all one in eventual corpsification!"

• Panel 5: The girl interjects, "Teachers are supposed to be uplifting."

• Panel 6: The teacher replies, "People keep saying that, but I've never once encountered it."

Note: The comic portrays humor related to philosophical themes and the perception of education, using a playful exchange between students and a teacher.