Baa Baa Black Sheep

"Real learning must ultimately be limited to men and women who insist on knowing--the rest is mere sheepherding." -Ezra Pound

My AP Comp teacher read this to our class my junior year of high school and I remembering thinking: I'll never be a sheep! I'm no sheep! I insist on knowing!

Truth be told: I am sometimes the sheepiest sheep ever. Physics? Political science? Please, herd me. Jab me with your hook-stick thing. Get out your cattle prod and zap me into line because there's no way I'm going to warm up to Cicero or Althusser unless you make me.

But I'm not a sheep about some things. Can you really be un-sheep-ish about EVERYTHING? Sounds exhausting. I'd rather stand over here and chew on some clover.