curious

A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A teacher in a red vest stands before a class, finger raised, saying "Good morning kids! I'm your new teacher and I believe all children are naturally curious!" Panel 2: A row of excited kids cheer "Yaayyyyy!" Panel 3: The teacher continues, "And since curiosity is natural, trying to teach it would be as stupid as trying to teach cats to meow or dogs to bark." Panel 4: Arms spread wide, the teacher says, "Therefore we'll be focusing on valuable unnatural activities: research methods, statistical thinking, and dispassionately weighing trade-offs in life decisions." Panel 5: A kid asks flatly, "...Why?" Panel 6: The teacher, gesturing toward the kid, brightly concludes, "Guess I need to teach logic as well!" The joke: the teacher treats a child's simple "why?" as proof that logical reasoning is the very unnatural skill that needs teaching. Votey (bonus panel): The teacher (drawn as a loose sketch) waves and says, "Have an unnatural day, kids!"