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[icepixie]

Brainwave! Bill Watterson's 1990 Kenyon commencement speech is actually exactly what I need for my education unit! Hooray!

If anyone can think of more texts like that, which present education as more than just sitting in a classroom, I would love to hear them. Those of you who suggested Feynman, so far that looks promising, although I haven't read much yet.

Actually...can anyone think of think of Calvin and Hobbes strips specific to the ideas of education and school? I know there are some, but I don't know the comic well enough to immediately point to any. I should find an archive or a book of them...

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

Hmm, there aren't any quotation marks in any of the HTML, so that's not it. Alas, now that you replied to the comment, there's no way to see for sure. However will I sleep tonight? ;)

Hey, just doing a BA in English was enough to make me love the Academia strip. So much BS, so little time...

There are far more comic strips that never did anything for me than those that did. Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Zits (though I didn't have access to that for too long, so wasn't too attached), the Boondocks, and now Doonesbury. That's about it. The topical ones like BC, Boondocks, and Doonesbury are like their own little historical records. I went through a few of my BC books a couple years ago and found them even funnier now than I did in high school, when I wasn't old/tuned-in enough to really get some of the political stuff. Opus, however, will live forever.

[fiara.livejournal.com]

Opus is amazing. I have a stuffed one that my father bought me as a child. I think it sparked my fascination with penguins.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

There are two, and I managed to get my hands on both. My dad bought me the "regular" Opus, and a colleague gave me her "Shower Phase" Opus when she was clearing out some old stuff, knowing I'd love it. Opus remains a true original, and one of the best things to come out of comics in years. :)