I love this quote by the novelist Anatole France; "Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
I thank both my teachers at school and my parents for having encouraged me to start the quest for knowledge. I learned infinitely more after leaving school than when attending, as the aforementioned people had sown the necessary seeds. Thanks to them I shall never complete my education.
Yesterday I learned that, counter-intuitively, water at 100 degrees centigrade can freeze faster than water at 35 degrees. It's called the Mpemba Effect.
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"When I think back at all the crap I learned in High School,
It's a wonder I can think at all"
A friend of mine learned the Mpemba Effect when she poured a kettle of boiling water on the windscreen of her Merc to de-ice it.
Curious to know how you found this new knowledge!
Alan: In my day only gils went to High Skool. Is there something you're not telling us?
Kabbalah: Hay told me and I didn't believer her.
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