A friend recounts a tale of a University lecturer who made the members of his class memorise pi to some ridiculous number of decimal places. From time to time, he’d make the group recite the sequence, one digit each.

I’m picturing this rather differently, as a form of punishment drill. Should the maths class’s test results fall short of expectations, they would each be made to stand. The teacher would point to one student to start.

3

Said student would then sit. Her neighbour would continue:

point 1

She’d sit. The girls at the next desks would progress the sequence: 4, 1, 5…

The rules would be simple. Once all of the girls had recited their number correcty, the whole class would be seated and the lesson could resume. But should any girl fail, then all of those left standing would receive a taste of the tawse on each hand.

So much fairer, don’t you think, for the teacher to give them the chance to redeem themselves, rather than simply whacking them all for their poor performance?

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