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Once there was a man named Honi. He came upon an old man planting a carob tree.“How long does a carob tree take to produce fruit?” Honi asked.“Seventy years,” the old man replied.“You idiot!” cried Honi. “Why are you wasting your time planting a tree whose fruit you will never see?”“When I was born,” replied the old man, “the world was full of carob trees, planted by the people who came before me. So I plant this, so that my descendants and their neighbors might enjoy trees, as I did.”And he went back to planting.In hell, everyone is seated before a table filled with delicious food. Every kind of food they could imagine, right before their eyes. But to everyone’s hands are tied long spoons. And try as they might, nobody can feed themselves, because the spoons are too long to bring the food to their mouths. So they make a mess of everything, and spill food all over themselves.Truly, a place of desolation, sadness, and want.In heaven, everything is exactly the same. However, instead of trying and failing to feed themselves, they use the spoons to feed one another. And everyone has enough to eat.When you were a child, people paid for your schooling with their tax dollars (if you went to private school, then some number of your teachers were surely the recipients of public schooling, and the private school, too, almost certainly received grants and funds from the state, paid for by parents who didn’t send their kids there).Now, even though your kids might not directly benefit from it, you should do the same for the next generation.Similarly, today you pay for schooling but have no kids in school. Tomorrow, your house will catch on fire and someone whose house has never caught on fire, and will never catch on fire, will pay for the fire department to come and save you and your stuff. Next week, someone who lives on a nicer block than you will pay for a police officer to drive a patrol car down your block, because some other person that neither of you know was robbed on the corner last month. And then you’ll pay for federal inspection of meat, even though you are a vegetarian, while someone who is allergic to chocolate will pay the government to make sure there’s no rat poison in your M&Ms.We feed one another with long spoons, because otherwise life would be hell.And finally, to quote author John Green, who like me is happy to pay for schools even though he has no school-age children: “because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.” Stupid people, people with no education, will not secure good jobs. They will not buy nice homes and luxury goods or contribute maximally to the economy, and they will not adequately fund all the benefits that YOU enjoy. Some percentage of them will become criminals and maybe even rob you, and then on top of that, your taxes will pay to catch them and keep them in prison.Those nations that don’t see the utility in providing basic needs for one another — and yes, schooling through high school, perhaps beyond, is most definitely a basic need in our era — do not prosper. They mire, while wealth accumulates in the hands of a few and the rest are left in the dust. And then come the pitchforks, and the musket, and the guillotine, and the firing squad.All in all, educating other peoples’ kids is a pretty great bargain, if you ask me.EDIT: Wow, that was by far my fastest trip to over 1K upvotes. I’m glad these stories resonated with people! Thanks to all jumping in with respectful comments and questions. Thanks also to commenter Tyler Weiss, who provided the more accurate version of John Green’s quote, which I had originally paraphrased slightly.I also want to lift up those commenters who have mentioned that John Green now has school-age children, who were either not born or very young at the time of his quote (in 2012), and those others who have pointed out that while carob trees do take many years to produce a full bloom of fruit, they don’t actually take a full 70 years.To the former, thank you, and I’m glad that Mr. Green is raising kids, as I bet he’ll make a great dad. And to the latter, I fully cop to the fact that the parable of Honi (which comes from the Talmud, if you’re curious) is meant to impart a moral lesson, not a botanical one, and so the truth of carob gestation had to be fudged a bit for the lesson about societal care to truly land, but I appreciate your comments all the same. :)EDIT #2: Ok, now at over 11K and showing no signs of slowing down. Wow, I’m really floored! Again, thank you for all the votes. A few comments have shown up multiple times, and rather than continue to answer them individually, I’d like to provide an FAQ of sorts here.“Sure, everyone agrees that trees are nice, but American-style education is crappy because [insert reason why schools stink here]” This is off-topic. We are not here to debate the merits of the particular form of education that we provide for one another via our taxes, just whether childless people ought to be paying for it. If you’d like to debate educational styles, or rail against the Prussian model, or whatever else, allow me to point you to the Methods of Education category.“Private schools would do a better / more efficient job of educating kids.” See #1. Also, non-sectarian private schools spend, on average, $22.5K per student, which is TWICE what public schools spend. And they only teach 5 million schoolkids, nationally. There are 1 million public schoolchildren in New York City alone. In short, private schools can’t provide education at the cost and scale that you think they can.“The Old Man chooses to plant those trees. Why am I coerced into paying taxes?” John Locke dealt with the notion of tacit consent over 400 years ago. By virtue of living within the peace, prosperity, and security provided by the state, and deriving various benefits from it, you have in fact already consented to the cost of maintaining that state. If you don’t like how the state is run, you can try to change it via the ballot box or revolution, or you can leave (and this isn’t East Germany, nobody’s stopping you). Those are the only two-and-a-half choices. Stamping your foot down and saying “but I didn’t CHOOSE to be born!” while continuing to reap the benefits that society has provided for you is as effective a rhetorical technique as it was when you were a teenager living in your parents’ house and they told you to wash the dishes. If you’re going to live in this house, you’re going to need to pitch in from time to time. Yes, even if you didn’t dirty these particular dishes this particular time.Related to #3: “we should use charity to pay for these things, instead of forced taxation.” Sorry, people are greedy and short-sighted (as evidenced by these questions that keep coming up), especially at the societal scale, and they won’t give enough to cover the costs of maintaining all the various services that we enjoy, including (but by no means limited to) public education. We know this because, before the institution of mass public schooling, education was only for the rich. A few extremely wealthy people endowed free universities and other schools for the “indigent” (ie anyone who couldn’t afford their own private coterie of tutors) but these couldn’t, and didn’t, cover even a fraction of the school-aged children and young adults in the country. If we returned to this charitable model, for every person who chose not to give, someone else would have to pay DOUBLE what they currently pay in taxes. Do you really see that happening? Would YOU be that charitable?“I’m fine paying for schools, but why should people who have kids get a break on their taxes?” Because kids are REALLY EXPENSIVE, but we want people to have them anyway, because a growing population is good for the economy and the security of the state. So parents get a (very moderate) tax break, because that’s how the government incentivizes various behaviors it would like to encourage. If this system bothers you, I’d remind you that the government hands out far larger breaks and subsidies for things far less useful than having kids, such as “small farm” subsidies going to multinational agribusinesses and waving import fees if a car is “assembled in America” but actually built in China and Mexico and shipped here in four parts that a robot in Nevada bolts together, and I encourage you to direct your ire at these instead.“I’d just hold the spoon closer to the round end / break the spoon / eat with my hands / etc”. Yes, yes, you’re very smart. It’s a metaphor, not a riddle to be solved.That’s it for now. If I think of any other common themes I’ll add to this list. Keep reading, keeping asking, and above all stop obsessing over the idea that someone, somewhere is getting a benefit thanks to you, and start seeing all the benefits that you’ve enjoyed thanks to someone else. I promise you, you’ll be a lot more humble, and a lot happier.EDIT #3: So after six months, over 500K views, 33K votes, and four dozen shares, someone flagged this answer as plagiarism, which is awfully strange because with the exception of the John Green quote (which is already linked) the answer is written entirely in my own words.With that said, here is a full accounting of my sources, in the interests of transparency and providing further information for interested readers:The story of Honi is, as I mentioned, from the Talmud, specifically Taanit 23A, which you can read here (the carob tree story is about halfway down the page). You can also find this retold on Honi’s Wikipedia page.The story about the long spoons is a fairly common folk tale. I’ve heard it many times over the years, first from my father’s sermons, or possibly at Jewish camp. The source is sometimes given as Reb Haim of Romishock, though I’ve also heard the Baal Shem Tov given credit, but the truth is that versions of the story are found in numerous different cultures, including non-Western ones, going back several hundred years at least. I didn’t pull from any one of these, but from my own memory. The images are by Stuart McMillan.The John Green quote, which is already linked (here’s the link again), is from his excellent Crash Course: World History series on Youtube, specifically #34: Nationalism (the context is that he’s talking about the Meiji reforms in Japan, which included widespread public schooling). It’s also been fairly widely memed, as so many punchy quotes are.I trust that this is an adequate reporting of my sources. At the suggestion of Quora mod team, I’ve also gone ahead and block-quoted the stories, though they are written in my own words.If there are any further issues, I would encourage you to make a comment or message me.

My boyfriend and I are five years apart, which is definitely at the upper limit for me.It feels bigger than it is when you’re my age (I’m 22 and before anyone asks, yes, he’s older. I’m not dating a 17-year-old. Yikes).There’s a noticeable gap there — not huge, but noticeable. I occasionally have to remind him that certain pop culture references were before my time. Sometimes I hear myself speak and can tell that I don’t have as much life experience as he does. I have to remind myself that he was out of college before I even graduated high school.And, of course, it’s strange to meet his friends, who are generally older than he is. That’s when I really feel young.Otherwise, having a slightly-larger-than-average-for-my-age age gap in my relationship has been pretty wonderful. The fact that he has that extra life experience has really pushed me to grow more than I thought I would in a relationship just to match him. I feel challenged dating him. He won’t let me get away with stagnating and complacency — and I love it.Anything above that five-year gap? Not for me. It’s hard enough when you’re 22 to date someone who’s five years older. Any older than that and I think the life experience gap would be too much. I think a lot of that is just because I am so young. If I were 50, I don’t think dating someone who’s 40 or 60 would be that strange. But being 22? That’s a much bigger gap to fill.For others, though — I don’t judge. Larger age gaps are unusual, but I don’t think it’s any of my business. As long as everyone’s consenting and having a good time, that’s what matters.To each their own.