Bolt's feat raised the old grade-school axiom "Wanna race?" to athletic nirvana.
It is more intense for women because, even in the wrestling fraternity, there remains the old-school axiom among men: girls don't wrestle.
And so, I think, is the related axiom that a medical school can only produce superb doctors if it has a stellar research faculty.
She recalls being told at journalism school that photographs must serve the text, an axiom she has since turned upside down, not least because Italian speakers, by and large, are limited to Italy.
For years, the axiom around the Capitol has been that school aid is the third rail of state politics, capable of powering a political career or killing it quickly.
I was schooled by strict taskmasters who were proponents of the axiom, "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Brother Cyprian, my freshman English teacher, was a cross between Genghis Khan and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Wednesday's landmark New York state court ruling, which, after nearly eight years of litigation, found the state's method of financing public schools unconstitutional, is unlikely to do much to disprove that axiom.
Partly, I suspect, they are still in thrall to the bigger-is-better axiom: a big, highly successful research programme enhances a medical school's prestige and helps to attract students, faculty, patients and philanthropic donors, so schools with big, prestigious research establishments consider it impolitic to admit that research labs don't enhance medical education very effectively.
Axiom's nonprofit arm helped provide desks and materials for the school where that teacher worked.
That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school.
