Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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cleokaya said, 7 months ago

Welcome to the real world Calvin.
margueritem said, 7 months ago

What is it you wish to know?
kpeiyin said, 7 months ago

What an enlightening thought!!
Macushlalondra said, 7 months ago

That question ranks right up there with why do we pay a doctor or dentist to give us pain?
GrinsToYa said, 7 months ago

They never teach you what you want to know because they know you’ll learn it soon enough on your own.
Tara said, 7 months ago

Then perhaps Calvin, you should pay more attention in class.
ARF2 said, 7 months ago

Where is that nasty virus when you need it?
sjoujke said, 7 months ago

It floated down a drain?
Pacejv said, 7 months ago

I’m waiting for the Morton Salt girl to come along and save him.
somebodyshort said, 7 months ago

Napalm ?
Johanan Rakkav said, 7 months ago

I have so little sympathy for you, Calvin (except for the rain bit - I hate rain). I was much more like Susie, eager to learn and to make new friends. You have that ability too - but your stubborn selfishness drives it right out of you.
Superfrog said, 7 months ago

GrinsToYa is right. Find out yourself.
There are good social reasons to go to school. Have fun. If you pick up some education then that’s great but you’re just there to get into higher education or a trade.
After you have graduated or gotten qualified or certified or whatever THEN you can learn.
krisch said, 7 months ago

what he wants to know is how to make TNT out of common household detergent and stuff like that.. Just imagine if Calvin had access to Google
Downeasta said, 7 months ago

You will Calvin, and you will learn such wonderous things.
jukeofurl said, 7 months ago

@Downeasta - you are either a teacher or they have a different primary educational system on your planet…
Tanya said, 7 months ago

LOL! I agree with Johanan, I hate the rain as well… School never bothered me much…
APPLESCRUFF said, 7 months ago

Calvin should be grateful he doesn’t have nuns in his school. They used capital punishment back then.
Ivy0730 said, 7 months ago

What do you want to learn then?
jrbj said, 7 months ago

That’s the thing about schools, Calvin. There is so much to know that they don’t teach. But then there is so much that they are supposed to teach and don’t.
BuzzDog said, 7 months ago

I finally figured out that school isn’t so much about WHAT you learn…it’s really more about teaching you HOW to learn.

At least that’s the mindset that got me through undergrad and grad school (grin)…
cdward said, 7 months ago

School is where you learn far more than you think you’re learning – not only some of the basics of how to get on in the world (so we can spend our time reading comics, for example), but also some basics in getting along in society. And frankly, I loved school because it let me explore so many options for my future. It’s just that so much of it depends on that ineffable combination of teacher, student and parents.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 7 months ago

They never teach you what you want to know in class! But you need what they teach to learn what you want!
Submachine said, 7 months ago

I reckon it is a good morning to be judgemental.
davidf42 said, 7 months ago

The artwork is supurb, especially the second panel.
midiranger said, 7 months ago

@Applescruff – I think you mean corporal punishment. They didn’t let the nuns KILL children, even if they wanted too. But I agree with the rain sentiment. Hated waiting for the bus.
Buzzdog & lonewolf said it best
Grog said, 7 months ago

I didn’t learn what I wanted to learn until the very last year of University.
Coffee-Turtle said, 7 months ago

Some of the most profound questions of the universe.

Teaching you HOW to learn is important, but it works better when you learn things that are useful and practical. The “journey” itself should be fun.
HelmetHead said, 7 months ago

A Sunday Calvin strip decorated my home bulletin board for many years, the one ending with, “If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.” It was the motto of our – for want of a better word – home school. One of the first things my son learned to read were Calvin books; he’d read them aloud into a tape recorder :-)
Grog said, 7 months ago

HelmetHead

I like your avatar. Do you think Calvin and Danae would make good partners in ruling the world?
Awesome-o said, 7 months ago

Calvin speaks the truth…
Vigilante de noche said, 7 months ago

Ah… The wisdom of the ages while still in it’s infancy?
Take Two
sono_tremenda said, 7 months ago

I just adore them!!
somebodyshort said, 7 months ago

Helmethead and Danae couldn’t rule the world together, it would be global warfare. Just think if they had children.
katdreams said, 7 months ago

I so sympathize with Calvin. I absolutely hated school until college. I knew, even as a child, when I was being forced to learn things that would be useless to me thoughout my entire life. And I’ve yet to be proven wrong.
GretchensMom said, 7 months ago

I wonder what it is exactly Calvin wants to know in school that they’re not teaching him?

When I watch television trivia shows like “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” and “Cash Cab” … it makes me feel sad at all the things they apparently AREN’T teaching kids in school anymore these days that they used to and should STILL be teaching, like American history, geography, etc. (I left “Jeopardy!” off the above list because those contestants actually do have to be smart enough to be on it, unlike the other ones).

People don’t seem to know anything these days except how to blurb meaningless bleeep on places like Twitter! I mean, why do they think anyone would care that, at this moment in time, they’re eating a PB&J sandwich or going to the bathroom?!?!?
Yukoneric said, 7 months ago

Wait until you’re a teenager. You’ll know it all then.
bald 716 said, 7 months ago

i never had a school bus to ride to school as we lived .95 miles from the school so i had to walk which made it worse

if you lived here that amount of rain might have added up to a lot of snow and you might have had a snow day
adavis82 said, 7 months ago

school became boring when they started teaching in order to pass standardized tests
jessero said, 7 months ago

bleeep of
grammahotsho said, 7 months ago

I don’t think kids have the challenges that make learning fun. I agree about standardized tests. Education should be practical. I still know how to diagram a sentence, OH BROTHER, I use it every day, NOT! By the way, I grew up in a little logging town in the Cascades in Oregon. I often waited for the bus in cascading rain - real northwesterners don’t mind it. We love our green and we love it when CA imports whine about it!.
.:Rock:. said, 7 months ago

Hey GretchensMom…

He wants to learn why he doesn’t want to go to places he doesn’t like going (like school). That’s why it’s so funny.
Marty241 said, 7 months ago

Macushlalondra said, about 11 hours ago

That question ranks right up there with why do we pay a doctor or dentist to give us pain?~~~~and why would we go to someone who calls it “Practice”? I don’t want someone practicing on me.
jtpozenel said, 7 months ago

One word….”profound”. No wait, that’s three words.
heybigbubba said, 7 months ago

Calvin, these are the three most important things they want to teach you, shut up, get in line, and do as you’re told—NOW.
Ginrummy33 said, 7 months ago

I just love that middle panel. The depiction of rain using just black ink on white paper is amazingly done there. I think Watterson commented in a later book that this was one of his favorites also. A great example of why color is not always a better thing for daily strips.
vermabharat said, 7 months ago

:)
Jay_Dallas said, 7 months ago

Kid, welcome to life…
ratlum said, 7 months ago

Im the only stupid one that reads this strip
I cant remember a thing I learned till about grade 6

O yes home schooling does have a down side grade 2 to 4
Then really enjoyed learning after that
Calvin will change his ways ,maybe make us all proud of him
NyukNyuk2000 said, 7 months ago

Great Artwork.
Bargrove said, 7 months ago

The forgetting curve is real. We don’t remember much in the world of facts. It’s attitudes that stick with us. In school, we should learn that learning is fun. Alas, Calvin is on a very wrong track. But it was school that did it to him.