Originally Posted by Disk_Pusher

What disappoints me most is when I hear someone say something simply brilliant in class, and when I ask them about afterwards, they look at me blankly and say, "Oh, I was just talking, I didn't mean it. I was fucking around."

I keep forgetting that intelligence is a bad thing, and I believe that lack of respect for education (both in principle and for the people involved in the field) will cause the next generation to be a complete disaster.

Hopefully they'll rebel from their parent's socially induced insanity and all become wonderfully literate and articulate adults.

I can always hope.