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

"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.

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.

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.

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