Is Calvin dumb or smart?
Some people look at Calvin’s vocabulary and declare him a genius. Others look at his math skills and declare him an idiot. The truth is, Calvin is incredibly bright and talented at the things that he is interested in. Calvin enjoys talking and philosophizing; he knows all the right words. Calvin hates math; he can’t do 3 + 7 and gives his homework to Hobbes for him to come up with eleventeen. Calvin loves dinosaurs; he can tell you all the differences between an allosaurus and a tyrannosaurus rex. Calvin hates writing; he thinks writing sentence is hard labor. So you see, the strip is so deep and can be viewed on too many levels to truly answer the question. But in my opinion, Calvin is smart.
