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

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

Scarcity

"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."

'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!'

Abacus.

Max Weber

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

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

The History Teacher

Gold versus Knowledge

X-RAY

Reign Man

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

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.'

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

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

''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?

'I'm sorry Mrs. Jackson, but when you've become as excellent of a teacher as you are, you've forfeited your right to retire.'