THe show is worth making a part of our children's educations.
It taught vocabulary...
Zoe: You sanguine about the kinda reception we're gonna get?
Mal: Absolutely. What's sanguine?
Zoe: Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, now don't it?
It taught teamwork...
ZOE: (stopping Jayne) This is something the Captain needs to do for himself.
MAL: (muffled,fighting) No - it's not!
ZOE: Oh... (excessive gunfire ensures)
It taught ethics...
Jayne: "Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin paid; mostly only when I'm gettin paid. But eating people alive, when does that get fun?"
Yes, far better than Schoolhouse Rock or ABC Afterschool Specials.