Cognitive Enthusiast Gifts

"I take it you agree that there can be no meaningful thought without the existence of language."

Memory Clinic - Old What's His Name, Director.

Thinking Gears

'And this year's 'Inquisitive Learner Award' goes to...'

Scarcity

"Oh, great - They changed the Meaning of Life again."

"Wait—what did I come into this room to do?"

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

"I won it for being the most noncompetitive in preschool."

A Preschool of Fish

'Yes, grammar rules do evolve over time, but making up your own to 'stay ahead of the curve' won't work in this English class!'

"You said mindfulness could help us do well on the test, so I filled it up with as much as I could last night."

"My first night in the lab and I was clearly the smallest brain in the place."

Kindergarten. Today; Simon Says. I don't know who this "Simon Says" is, but he could make a killing in product endorsements!

'At first it's just kindergarten, but then mission creep takes over and you're in college.'

Human Brain

'Life isn't fair and neither is Miss Brown!'

"Fifty years in academia, studying, researching, writing and teaching. And what do they call me? ‘The Human AI’."

Abacus.

Max Weber

"Nice to have you all back at school, tap-tap, there are lessons to learn."

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

X-RAY

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

The History Teacher

Reign Man

Gold versus Knowledge

Ethics ethics.

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

History. The worst past is my dad says they're still making history!

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

Hi, I work at the admissions office of the local university. If you could change the world in three days, what would you do?

How does it feel to always be the smartest guy in the room, Dr. Kapuchnik? Usually, it feels pretty good. In this particular case, it feels like I'm cheating.

'Do your homework! - You gotta learn math if you want to be a bookie!'

"For today's lesson, you're going to teach me about pronouns."