Knowledge Enthusiasts Mugs

Tree of Knowledge. Tree of Commonly Accepted Misconceptions.

'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!'

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

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

'Here's MY information highway!'

National Everything Awareness Day

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

U of Debt

"...and before you embark upon life's journey, could one of you help me with my laptop?"

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

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

'Your classroom management techniques work in practice but not in theory. That worries me.'

Super Student

Hanging off every word...

'I told you hard work would pay off in the third grade, Cate...You've had three job offers.'

"Get up at 7; leave for school by 8; no video games until after homework is done -- how about some regulatory relief?"

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

"And you need to know this why?"

"The state of graduates literacy levels is shoking and both my colleegs agrree that there maths isn't much better."

'Oooh, Jimmy, the teacher put another throwing star on your paper! Great!'

"Caption contest"

"Daddy, instead of the princess story tonight, can you explain how and why manifest destiny eliminated the American Indians?"

"I just feel like I'm constantly disappointing parents everytime I appear on report cards."

'Ooops! My mistake. That was the yearly budget estimate, no the monthly estimate.'

'I'm exhausted from too much enlightened skepticism, fresh perceptive thinking, intellectual challenges and independent ideas. What I need is some simple cliche living!'

'What makes you think you know so much?' - 'Your questions.'

'I'm partially passing my Meteorology course.'

'Dad taught me how to tie my shoes, and I taught him how to program the computer.'

Weapens of Mass Instruction

'If you are not careful, son, you will be mathematically eliminated from all of the Ivy League schools.'

The 5 paragraph essay is sooo stupid. Why do we have to learn it? So you can get good SAT scores. That will get you into a good college, and then a good job. So you never have to write another 5-paragraph essay again.

Gold versus Knowledge

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

'People who can read Venn diagrams...'

"Why don't you try learning from your own mistakes?"