And then there are days...

And then there are days when you wonder why you bother...

I know this has been around for a while, but it's new (and funny) to me. It also reminds me of a quote from a recent interview with Alan Kay:

How much learning is a person willing to do to really learn how to use a computer? The answer, over the last 25 years of the commercialization of personal computing, is almost none. Nobody really wants to put in any amount of effort. The things that people have been willing to learn have tended to be like the media they grew up with, which have really simple user interfaces. (The big exception is video games.)

(via infocult)

A true willingness to learn requires a certain amount of playfulness, a willingness to make mistakes, seem ridiculous, deconstruct the center of your beliefs, and emerge out the other side changed. I think this is as true in general education as it is in learning to use a new technology.