The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

"Thinking" is not something we talk about.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.