If someone is making an effort to ignore you, he is not ignoring you. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It takes a certain type of person to waste intelligent concentration on classroom/academic problems. These are lifeless bureaucrats who can muster sterile motivation. Some people can only focus on problems that are REAL, not fictional textbook ones.

We find it to be in extremely bad taste for individuals to boast of their accomplishments; but when countries do so we call it "national pride."

One reason we think the past was more violent than reality is because historians like to discuss wars, not peace.