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

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.

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.

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.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!