Questioning Scholar Gifts

"I don't know why we try so hard to get the right answers. There isn't even a prize."

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

"Mrs. Marsha Mullhouse, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, asks, "Are You subject to the laws of physics, or are the laws of physics subject to You?"

"Graduation day at kite flying school."

"But what if this is all there is?"

'What I did on my summer vacation: I wrote about what I had done the rest of the year.'

'Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study.'

"And you need to know this why?"

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

'I failed history again. I guess those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'

BNP legality response to court ruling.

Wordplay: Dilemma.

"I wish I'd failed my 11 Plus too...."

'Tsk...woolly thinking again.'

Academic Affairs: The Chair of Philosophy Corners the Chair of the Sciences

"Archaeologists discovered several enormous ancient cities buried under the jungles of Cambodia. That means the Khmer civilization was the largest empire on Earth from the 9th to the 12th centuries. That changes everything about our conception of the Middle Ages. What was your conception of the Middle Ages? Well... it was... well, knights, maidens, dragons... mostly dragons. And elves."

Diversity Does Not Include Class

"If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Life is About Learning

The Establishment: Independent Thought

Upside down question mark hanging from fishing line.

Sign by school library reads: 'Passing Lane'

'Of course these are false colors. The reds are really greens, the greens are reds, the blues are oranges and the oranges are blues.' 'Makes sense.'

'Mrs. Wayne was so excited about getting her masters in physical science, she took a quantum leap!'

"I can't wait to get home and insult my parents from a position of authority."

"What do you mean I ask too many questions?"

Grading Guidelines.

"Is there a section at the bottom for comments?"

"What's come over Heisenberg? He seems to be certain about everything these days."

'But what is a recession, Father?'

Professor, I think you'll find the concepts I present in this paper, even in their embryonic stages, hang in the delicate balance between that which is mnemonically incredible and that which is sheer genius! ... Then again, they could have simply been the

'Nothing against you, but I'm thinking about going back for my master's.'

'It's kind of depressing: We've spent three years on this research paper, and probably only ten people in the World will ever read it...'

'It is a bad paper and, as a reviewer, I should reject it, but it cites five of my own papers...'

"I think this is the last year he'll believe in Father Christmas, he's asking a lot of questions"