I always remember Nick Cage's line from Snake Eyes when local cops tell him he can't force a stadium full of people to wait in line and give testimony one by one:

"Yes I did, and yes I can!"

That book destroyed me. My teacher had us read it in like 5th grade.

It’s so good because the title spoils the ending, so you know it’s coming the whole time and it’s still devastating.

Not really, no actual teacher would do that.

Yeah! I think out of the box thinking should be valued but I wouldn’t give points for it.

I’d tell the student that I thought it was clever and give them another chance to answer it.

If they don’t know the answer, hopefully they would have looked it up.

Teachers don't teach to educate, they teach to the test.

If it's on the test you learn about it if it's not on the test you don't learn about it. This results in Americans who think that Australia is in Europe. Because the test never asks the question, they never learned the answer.

There is no room for original thought in that system. If one has the capacity for independent thought that's something they had despite education not because of it.