“Want to know what else?” Dale was acting like he had a surprise for all of them.
There was a general bobbing of heads.
“One of her biggest and best teachers will be Cuco.”
Nobody said a word and all were expecting him to explain.
“He just knows so much and she’s with him all day, and will be more so as soon as the chicks fledge and get more independent.”
“But how will he teach her and what will he teach her?” Arturo blurted out what the rest were all thinking.
“Have you learned anything from Cuco in the last six years?”
Dale was being the professor again. He slipped into this role often and mostly by accident―he couldn’t help it.
Arturo nodded sort of knowing where Dale was going. “Lots,” he admitted . . . “tons.”
“Well, the same thing will happen to Pia. She will learn from Cuco and it will be tons, and she won’t even be aware of it. It’s kind of like osmosis, or rather, it just soaks into you through the skin and you don’t even know it.”
“Osmosis?” Arturo loved new words but also liked to know what they meant.
“By that I mean the flowing of knowledge from a higher concentration, that being Cuco, to a lower concentration . . . Pia. And it flows naturally according to the laws of nature or physics and cannot be prevented or stopped. It just happens.”
They were all looking at him expecting more.
“It’s kind of like this: I have learned from being around Cuco that penguins don’t have regrets, they have lessons. They learn from their mistakes and become better penguins. Pia won’t get that kind of education adding numbers or reading about soccer or learning how to spell and write. Cuco will teach her the part we can’t teach her, and I dare say it’s debatable which is more important. In the end, it doesn’t matter which is more important. It only matters that she learn all of it and she will.”
“The bottom line is that penguins doubt everything, and he will teach her to doubt. That’s what got Cuco his education, and it will get her one also. A good one.”
It was Elsa’s turn to express what they were all wondering. “Why doubt? I don’t get it.”
“Have you ever heard someone say that ‘False knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance’? Well, to some people, that’s a witty comment or a nice abstraction. Not to Cuco. To him, it’s a way of life. He doesn’t have any false knowledge. Everything he knows he learned from experience, and he didn’t take anybody’s word or warble about anything. He’d rather be ignorant than have the wrong information. Penguins didn’t get this far by taking unnecessary chances or making the wrong turn and doing the wrong thing. If they’re not sure about something, they question it. They’re skeptical and don’t make a move until they’re sure.”
From Pia.
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