What does this picture show?
Most will recognize something from antiquity, maybe a Greek statue, one of the Karyatides in the Erechtheion.
Others see the effects of weathering on limestone.
Of course, both are right and each makes fun of the other.
The first category of people are the educated ones; they say things like "e pluribus unum", they know what a sonnet is, they don't confound the Impressionists with the Expressionists and they are proud not to know what goes on under the hood of a car.

What the others know about antiquity is Pythagoras and maybe Thales. But they know why the sky is blue and the water wet. They delight in the solution of differential equations, and they are proud not to care about Oscar Wilde's private life. Such people are not considered educated; they are merely trained.

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