Thanks so much to everyone who's responded so far to my last entry. This sort of discussion really thrills me! In the hopes of keeping it going, I offer the following:

"As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me."

~To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee