Andertoons by Mark Anderson for September 28, 2021

Just left Philosophy class.

Future engineer. Glass half empty? No. Glass half full? No. The glass is 100% larger than in needs to be. And it only gets worse as they get older and promoted in their field.

Good Engineers ALWAYS leave a safety margin.

Apples and oranges do not mix!

Are the PC police watching or listening in?

I just had one apple and one mandarin orange as a snack. Compared to two oranges or two apples, there was more variety.

If she’s teaching literature as well as math, she could compare 9 of thee to 6 summer’s days.

That’s how it goes. Students whine to teachers and parents “it’s so hard”, parents whine to the principal, he whines to school board and they to decide to make it easier so they won’t hear so much whining and over the years the only thing students learn is how to pass the yearly assessment tests. Oh, and how to whine.

Sometimes, it’s perfectly valid to compare apples to oranges. It’s the learning of such things that comprises education.

Young Sheldon?

They’re not being compared; that would involve assessing their various characteristics against each other. They’re simply being used as an example of having so many of one thing, and so many of another, in order to explain what a ratio is.