A small wooden school desk with a paper boat and a leaf on the floor beneath it.

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Forrest

How are you going to learn anything if you keep doing schoolwork?

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer  ·  1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Forrest turns study on its head with a joke. Learning, he suggests, happens somewhere other than schoolwork, so doing your assignments is getting in its way. It's a cheeky, contrarian take on what education really is.

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