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Posted: 16 years ago

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IF SOME retailers give away appliances to attract customers, perhaps unemployed scholars should do the same thing. To test the proposition, a psychology professor who usually studies ants placed the following ad in Science magazine: "Animal Behaviorist, Ph.D. Experience in communication, social insects. Seeks university position. Will offer GE toaster oven to department granting interview, Zenith portable color TV if hired." A month of waiting brought only one response, from a university research director. The letter said in its entirety: "Dear Sir or Madam, What are the dimensions of the toaster oven?"

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SURPRISED to see a number of students suddenly leave the room only half way through an exam, the professor followed them into the corridor. He discovered the students completing the balance of the questions while leaning against the walls. When he asked for an explanation, one student pointed to the third question, which read: "Describe Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. You may supply a drawing but please leave room to answer."

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FOR years I had tried to persuade my sons to read books on topics other than sports. So when my youngest son came home one day with a science class research assignment on diseases, my first thought was, Well, this is one report that will be different. My joy was short-lived. When he handed me the paper to check, at the top of the page I read: "The Causes and Treatment of Athlete's Foot."

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WHEN I was a teenage boy growing up in a small village in Ontario, I told my father one day I was quitting school. He paused for a moment and said, "Son, I can't physically stop you, but when I came to this country at the turn of the century, I had to do back-breaking work building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Those iron rails were heavy and the hours were long. One day the boss said, 'Can anyone here measure?' Immediately I raised my hand. From then on I never lifted another rail - just measured the gauge of the track and got more pay. That's what education can do for you." That little parable had a profound effect on me, and it mattered not at all that only after I finished college did I learn that my father was probably the only one in his crew who spoke English.

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A CHILDREN'S swim class, with a teenaged girl in charge, was in progress in a pool at the University of British Columbia. A young mother, ecstatic over her daughter's prowess in the water, said to a man beside her, "See the little girl in the pink suit: That's my daughter. This is her first class!" "See your daughter's teacher:" replied the man. "That's my daughter. It's her first class too."