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

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.

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

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.

Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better!!

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

I've always internalized things

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.