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

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Xander

Giles lived for school. He's actually still bitter that there are only twelve grades.

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer · 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A joking exaggeration about someone devoted to school: Giles loved it so much that the limited number of grades still stings. The humour comes from treating education as an appetite that can never be satisfied.

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