A student was having trouble learning, and he appeared to be quite dense, so the teacher placed a dunce cap on his head and made him sit facing the wall, in the corner of the room. Day after day the boy sat there, listening to taunts from his classmates, only to be asked an occasional question to highlight his stupidity. Then one day, the student removed the dunce cap, cut a hole in the bottom of it, and used it as a megaphone. His voice drowned out the entire school.

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