Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 01, 2015

I know it’s true… I saw it on the Intarwebs!

Or…“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it.” – Abraham Lincoln

Torture builds character? I guess Pig has been hanging around with Calvin’s father…

School is for people who can think, and constant Googling is for people who can’t think.:I’ll never get a smartphone because I prefer to be the smart one.

“Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two.”The above line is simply trivia.“Why did Columbus sail the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two?”The answer to that question is history.`Yeah, I know. “Pearls Before Swine” indeed.

I agree with @Alabama_Al: History is about learning concepts, not memorizing dates and trivia.

internet: The Collective Conscious

Poor Willy. Can’t catch a break. First the heavy backpack that made him like a turtle, then this. What next for him?

I hope to see more of him.

to know, study…………….. to get fast answers in order to impress others, use google

If Pastis is taking the attitude that no one needs to know any history, I have to disagree with that. The average American voter is already far too ignorant (and also lazy).

“Where Napoleon died”? Since when did an American public school require anyone to know that?

I thought Tracy and Hepburn settled this question once and for all in “Desk Set.” “Making Machines do More, so that Man can do Less”.

History is fun, and school is not torture, so long as you keep up with your tasks. Slackers find that they’ve buried themselves alive, and that’s no fun!

So far, the only thing Rat has proven is that he knows how to look things up. He has not proven that he actually knows anything else.

Hum, I think a famous general said it best; Those who do not learn from history are bound to relive it .

The most important answer to questions I know is how to look up the answers.

Learning from the internet is the same as learning in school, and probably more fun and more complete also.

TMO1 seems to be saying voters need to know more, but why should they learn about history other than U.S. history.

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL!!! MY SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER STINKS!!!

I still can’t fiqure out how they got a picture of Jesus with those children…strike me deaf.

From a personal viewpoint, I have to disagree about learning history. I did well in school. Top 10% of the class, and history was one of the many courses I had to take. What good did it do me? None. I have absolutely no use for any of it, and have never used it or discussed it with anyone in my life. And most of the ‘facts’ I learned are actually questionable. I was made to learn them for a reason. To brainwash me into thinking a certain way. That certain things were right and good. And we can see the efforts of the brainwashing paying off.

Agree with defunctdoormat. Economics history could be useful, as we seem to repeat the Great Depression mistakes every 40 years, but with today’s schools everyone thinks the stock market crash caused the Depression. (Answer, it was really three income tax rate-increases between 1930 and 1935, plus a pile of new government regulations over commerce, including international trade. Growing government always harms the real economy.)

Yes.

History? We don’t need no stinking history. We are quite capable of making the same mistakes whether we know history or not!

History is supposed to supply context for your “instinctive” critical decisions. And it IS written by the winners to leverage that context.

Google has a serious habit, Electricity. Your brain works without it. (Well sometimes.) Plus your brain can think its own thoughts! Remember the end of Fahrenheit 451? Soon come mon.

It has been pointed out that here, in the good old U. S. of A., when someone says “It’s history!” they mean it’s over, we’re done with it and it’s no longer important. That’s here in the U. S. of A. In much of the rest of the world, especially in the Middle East, eastern Europe and the Balkans, when someone says “It’s history!” they say it with the veins bulging in their neck.

If your computer locks up, is that the inertweb?

all Hail the Google!!

They have the internet on computers now? -Homer (Simpson)

As a……. oh, the hell with it !!

school should be for learning to think. just Knowing information is not thinking. (but it can win you trivia contests)

@Sherlock Watson

“School is for people who can think, and constant Googling is for people who can’t think.:I’ll never get a smartphone because I prefer to be the smart one.”

Google is for people who want to know more than the useless information taught in schools.

Thumbs up!The Nabster is a little confused at times.

lmfao torture builds character

you go rat!!!! “technically I know everything!”that is a statement of the ‘true leaders’ of present history!!brilliant pun Pastis !!!!!!!!

I think the most important thing this day and age is to learn the skill to evaluate sources so you can recognize accurate information online and not be misled like so many.

Ha – Pig sounds like Calvin’s father in the last panel.

We must learn history so that we will recognize our mistakes when we repeat them.

Pig in the last panel reminds me of Calvin’s dad.

last line from the kid. that IS what school is. meant to brainwash and torture with confusion and it’s a waste of time, energy, and money. and i’m only 15. SSSSSSSSOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBBSSSSSSS!!!!!!

For a second there I thought Rat actually knew something for once

why do we need school if in the future we have google

How did rat type that in, like, 4 seconds?