My school wasn't any better at inculcating us with knowledge of fractions, but there's only one very simple fraction I have to use here so I'll give it a go.
Mass industrialised society developed, in part, by inculcating us with rigid taboos - not only "noli me tangere", but also "don't talk to me, jostle me, or even acknowledge my physical presence".
And in its melding of song, dance and story it's as classic as "Oklahoma!" But within its traditional form "Matilda" works with astonishing slyness and grace to inculcate us with its radical point of view.
In my experience, they ran the gamut from those unsuited by temperament and training to be teachers to extraordinary educators who did a heroic job of not only instructing us in the basics but inculcating in us a love of learning.
He inculcated in us the need to work diligently in school, in our jobs, and in our personal lives.
The reverence for Art which has been inculcated in us through blockbusters at the great galleries has reduced viewers to a single thought: it is Art, so it must be serious.
For most of us the blackberry (or bramble as it is often called) is the one wild food we have always known and, despite a fear of wild berries inculcated in us from childhood, the one berry we will pick without hesitation.
To inculcate in us the notion that, if you lived life like a novel, turning it over page by page, paying attention to its proper structure and chronology - school, university, career, marriage, kids - then somehow you could sidestep life's meanness.
The only difference "is that while we choose education, knowledge and success to bring about change, a terrorist, having bought into the narrative, has a sense of powerlessness and helplessness, which are inculcated in us from childhood, that lead him to believe that there is only one way, and that is violence".
And our lack of scruple is only amplified by the love of pets, which inculcate in us the desire for easy-going, cost-free and self-congratulatory affections towards the animal kingdom, and which thereby threaten the rest of nature.
And yet Hosseini's novels inculcate in us an emotional attachment to Amir, Hassan, Mariam, Laila, and many other Afghanis.
