And "receiving an education" is a role students used to play.

But now, apparently, they gather to throw foodstuffs at one another and then complain about being disciplined for it. Do watch the video (some real unbiased reportage there) where a journalist and a university perfesser collaborate to provide an enlightened explanation of hazing.

Mrs. P., you will be glad to know you're off the hook for all those volunteer hours teaching Confirmation classes. All you need to learn them kids is how to huck an egg.

“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”

― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge 
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