Knowledge Enthusiast Gifts

Teacher trying to hammer knowledge into child.

"Behold, as I guide our conversation to my narrow area of expertise."

"You're wise, but you lack tree smarts."

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

'I know it all...I just can't remember it all at once.'

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

'I dunno-won't it make the wife MORE of the knowall she already is?'

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

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

'My name's Google and I'm being inundated with requests for information about every damn thing imaginable, by people I don't even know...It's endless!'

Fear/Knowledge

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

Eternal Student.

The Bookworm

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"Teach yourself what you don't know you don't know."

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

Historical memory is on life support.

'Here's MY information highway!'

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

'It's all original research. I had no assistance when I looked it up on Wikipedia.'

National Everything Awareness Day

Interdisciplinary studies.

Do your research!

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

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

"Eat not of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Its sources have yet to be verified."

Back to school.

The intellectual.

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

Screen Time vs Book Time