Quirky Education

Quick! Consider this!

Are you familiar with the term 'feral human'? Coined by the creators of the X-Files series, it refers to humans who have been brought up in the world by foster animal parents, and apparantly there really have been such cases.

The interesting thing is, although these 'feral humans' were initially like you and I, capable of intelligent learning, conversing, playing and working, because of inadequate or improper education (by animals of the wild no less) they are unable to display all the behavioural or intellectual characteristics of a normal human being.

So, even though there's a whole planet full of 'normal' human beings, who have gone as far as devising ways to travel in space, these 'feral humans' are simply unable to attain their full potential due to the lack of proper education. (While it might be useful to husk a coconut with your feet and teeth, such a skill, versus... say... reading and writing, simply will not get you far in the corporate world.)

Can you see where I'm heading?

Yes, you're right! Horses, turtles, baboons, fish, are perhaps all latently super smart and capable too! If one day horses, for example, stumbled upon a secret conclave full of well-educated horses, it might learn how to speak in Horse, write in Horse, and even sing in Horse!

Education might be expensive, but proper education is priceless.