Bright Idea

Consumerism

In 1987, the number of shopping centres in the US surpassed the number of high schools.

Dwindling education budgets have seen advertising introduced into classrooms, exposing 7 million students — a third of them teenagers — to two minutes of commercials every morning on Channel One. The advertisers pay for computers, video monitors and other electronic stuff the government can't afford. Not surprising then that consumerism is ingrained from an early age in a headspace where education should be permitted to prevail.

— Doug Anderson

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Wiseguy

Cleverness is not wisdom.
— Euripides

The Self-Made Man

No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rehears All

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me,
because I'd like to hear it again.
— Groucho Marx

Sophilia

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and
third by experience, which is the bitterest.
— Confucius