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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]

Some? You're kidding, right? (Please don't tell me you're too young to have remembered Calvin when it was current?) You really shouldn't have to work that hard to find C&H comics centered on school. There are a ton. And there are comic indexes, too, which are helpful.

Here's just what I happen to have on my hard drive, for what it's worth:





























(Yeah, a few of them are a stretch, like the Shakespeare ones, which I included just for fun, but this is just the tip of the iceberg for school-related strips.)

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Curse you! Now I have to go flip through a Calvin & Hobbes book! Torture, I say!

[elflore.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite: why math is a religion.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99706190@N00/1869299/