- Sitting still at a desk while someone in the front of the room lectures
- Preparing for standardized tests
- Changing what you are doing every 50 minutes, no matter whether you’d actually finished in 10 minutes or whether you needed more time
- Writing five-paragraph essays incorporating highly scored words such as “paradoxically”, “nonplussed”, and “notwithstanding” while filling nearly all the allocated space
- Answering even numbered questions (because those are the ones that don’t have the answers printed in the back of the book)
- Focusing time and effort solely on activities that will be graded, along with the related skill of sticking to a rubric when completing assignments, and being careful not to go beyond the rubric
- Eschewing tools, technologies, and resources that could reduce time and effort or improve the end result because that would be cheating
- Forming learning and work groups only with others of the same age, because age is the most important attribute for what a person can and should do
- Knowing and accepting your place, because your teacher’s and society’s evaluation of your worth as a person is reflected in your grades and test scores
- Avoiding the things you like to do, but doing what you are told, because learning and work shouldn’t be fun
