meaningless life meaningless chemistry meaningless spanish meaningless math what good is a knowledge of history in those who are powerless and do-nothings what good is a knowledge of anything if the fool who learns it can't use it how many potential geniuses never realized their potential because our convaluted educational system killed their souls and stomped out all of their questions how many genioues who never had any potential were treated like geniuses because our convaluted educational system favors people with money over people with promise and lets private schools promise the parents of asses that their children will be exceedingly gifted