Anything that is quickly and easily learned is not worth learning

[Yavin4]

Anything difficult and hard to learn/understand is worth learning.

Agree or disagree?

[ExciteBike66]

1. LOL, Klingon is hard to understand, and probably not worth learning...

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3. mu' ghob nuv!

[Lint Head]

2. Learning to immediately leave a burning building is not hard.

But it is worth learning.

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4. learning to always vote (d) not (r) is easy!

remember, it's just like driving!

(d) to move forward
(r) to go backwards!

[PJMcK]

7. Tip o' the hat to Jennifer Granholm!

She used that line in her speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. She she was the Governor of Michigan, that automobile allusion was appropriate.

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8. it's an oldie but a goodie.

i remember my mom taught it to me when i was a kid and sat in the driver's seat once and asked what all the controls were.

that was about 45 years ago, some things never change.

[PJMcK]

9. Mine, too

We had a Ford sedan with manual transmission and the shifter was on the right side of the steering column. What a car that was!

That was almost 60 years ago and some things never change: Even as a kid, I was a Kennedy Democrat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Not necessarily.

Learning which way to turn a screwdriver is easy (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey), but it's useful knowledge. Learning Mycenaean Linear B would be difficult but not at all worth the effort unless you are a very specialized archaeologist.

Some other things that are both easy to learn and worth learning:

Not drying a wool sweater in the dryer.
Not sticking a fork in an electric outlet.
Not taking take candy from strangers.
Planting beans.
Not feeding the bears.

Some things that are difficult to learn and probably not worth it:

Repairing a VCR
Translating Fifty Shades of Gray into Old Church Slavonic
Tuvan throat-singing Barry Manilow's greatest hits

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6. Ever touch a hot plate that's red hot?

That's a vote for "disagree".

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. Don't pee on an electric fence. That is quickly and easily learned.

It is also very much worth learning.

[First Speaker]

11. I dunno...all those years I spent trying to summarize Proust...

...that was damned hard. And I have to wonder if just maybe, my time might have been better spent...

[jmowreader]

12. I wouldn't say that

It was quick and easy to learn Donald Trump is an ignorant, anti-American, dangerous communist fuckhead who'd sell his own mother for a nickel, just to say he did it.

[Codeine]

13. Reading is easy to learn

and is the single most important skill one can possess.