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.

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

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.

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

"Thinking" is not something we talk about.

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