With Churchill, they thought he was a dunce, didn't they?
Not all are convinced that Pisa officials should don the dunce cap.
After leaving school with zero qualifications (no dunce, he would attend night school at a later date, and pass his exams with straight As), Carlyle followed his father into the painting and decorating trade.
The students, some wearing dunce caps, refused to leave and organised a series of life drawing classes near the entrance to the central London gallery.
The remainder of the season could all go horribly wrong of course, and if it does I'll look like a prize dunce for saying all this.
In "School Blues" Daniel Pennac, a prize-winning French writer, describes what faces a school dunce when the teacher before him cannot recall what it felt like to be ignorant.Mr Pennac was once such a child (he uses the French cancre, as in Cancer, the crab: a creature that scuttles sideways instead of advancing forwards).
Alejandro Toledo, Mr García's predecessor, doubled teachers' salaries (to an average of $350 a month) but did not tie that to higher standards.In this section Au revoir separatism, bonjour "autonomy" Bachelet tries again Before the sunrise When teacher is a dunce ReprintsIn December, the education ministry announced that all teachers would have to take a proficiency exam.
A GOOD teacher, but a dunce at top-level politics.
Power struggles in the Chinese Communist Party have changed in form since they were waged among guerrilla fighters denouncing each other in arcane Marxist-Leninist jargon in the caves of Yan'an; or, during the Cultural Revolution, using student-written "big-character posters", dunce caps and mass violence.
He retained the chairmanship of Heineken's holding group until last November.It amused him to claim that he was a financial dunce, uninterested in such matters as debt-to-equity ratios.
There is something very weird about poring over the SAT scores of a woman who's been sitting on the appellate bench for a decade, as though a dunce might have snuck by unnoticed all this time.
