He misbehaved (not attributed to hearing), was kicked out of many classrooms, missed his education, left school early illiterate and innumerate, and was finally unemployed.
Memorizing the Linnaean ranks of kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species, was—and in many classrooms, still is a rite of passage en route to more advanced material.
Many teachers and education officials are honouring a call by the pro-Alassane Ouattara coalition for civil disobedience, leaving many classrooms in 9 out of 19 regions shuttered.
A new programme to teach peace With their country bitterly divided by war, children in many classrooms in the south of Côte d'Ivoire are now being taught about peace and reconciliation through a new educational programme.
Yet that is a conservative estimate of how much money is being wasted in many classrooms through the inefficient use of computers.
Their replacement in many classrooms takes the haunting shape of Robert Louis Stevenson's split personality classic The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Many classrooms are never used.Much of the hope with which South Sudanese greeted independence in July 2011 has evaporated.
Take-home assignments are more common, projects have replaced written tests in many classrooms, and the whole area of Internet-aided plagiarism is a befuddling Goliath.
Of the many classrooms that I have worked in as an adjunct educator and mentor, all have benefitted from employing a certain degree of modern convenience as a teaching companion.
This is what should be happening (and does in many classrooms) and develops the kind of students who are independent, self-motivating, and can accept responsibility for their actions.
