What's the best thing you've learned in school?

We asked a cross-section of juniors:

"How to think and challenge old ideas," answered Brian Sleet '00. "My third grade teacher gave us the right to challenge her decisions with a good argument and would 'test' us from time to time with ail unfair rule."

•Karen Wilkes '00 responded: "To think for myself. Teachers/professors are not here to teach but to guide students through their text books, and even then you cannot trust everything they say."

• David Pass '00 replied, "The best thing I've learned in school is how to learn outside of school. Most importantly, I've learned how to read and how to think critically."

•From John White '00: "Learning to speak my own thoughts and opinions effectively in my senior AP U.S. history class has been invaluable in allowing me to express my own opinions to others. I didn't like being forced to speak out loud in class, but by the end of the year I looked forward to history every day."

•Erin Chisholm '00 summed it up with this: "I've learned that people are still people even if you spend $30,000 a year for college."