Quote o’ the Day
“Education will never be as expensive as ignorance.”
– Fortune cookie at a local Chinese restaurant
Strolling Amok
Pops goes on tour.
“Education will never be as expensive as ignorance.”
– Fortune cookie at a local Chinese restaurant
Strolling Amok 
True enough!
The tricky part, of course, is who gets to define what constitutes education and what constitutes ignorance.
I, for one, can certainly see many an art history graduate degree from a private institute of “higher education” being quite a bit more expensive than the “ignorance” of not having embarked on that course of study.
Great minds think alike, I guess. I first considered all the kids with degrees and student loans hanging over their heads unable to find work except for unrelated, go-nowhere minimum wage. And the fact that the vast majority of college grads never get jobs related to their field of study. And the cost of that. So I wanted to reword the quotation, perhaps swapping in “knowledge” and “costly”. And then I considered that education comes in many forms, including failure. One can get into quite a mish-mosh. But if you leave it generalized, it’s true enough. So I left it alone, suspecting that it might be the first quotation here to ever draw a few comments. How would you reword it or reshape it to iron out the modern exceptions?
I Like it as it stands. I had an odd one the last time I went for Chinese. Still sticks in my head and I dont know why or what it means really. It is a German proverb, (which I thought was odd to find in a Chinese fortune cookie) It said “Trees never touch the sky”
Ahhh, that may be one of those ones that you’d say, “I guess you had to be there”. Not dead sure what they’re going for on that one…
My last fortune cookie said “Action with a brain. Today you should proceed with caution. ”
Rather appropriate for a man with traumatic brain injury don’t you think.
Papa
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Yep, but at least you use what you have!