GET THE POINT?

    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH., 2017
                    GET THE POINT?

    I have shared some of this information with
you before but some things, like grades, deserve
to be repeated.
    This is November 8th which is also "Dunce
Day!"
     Very few people know much about the
"Dunce" except, perhaps, for the image of a
school kid from years ago, sitting in the corner
of a classroom, wearing a cone-like hat with a
point at the top.
  The "Dunce" was always pictured as the
troublesome kid in the class who wasn't too
bright!
   Lucky for me the day of the "Dunce" and the
"Dunce Hat" were already long past when I did
my best to get through school!
   In reality, the term "Dunce" comes from the
name of a medieval scholar, Duns Scotus of
Scotland.
  He came up with that pointed hat because he
believed knowledge would flow from the point
into the head of the person wearing it! Seems
logical to me!
   His theory didn't work very well and, over
the years, students forced to wear the caps
became known as  a "Dunce" and were usually
thought of as being....well....not very smart.
   I still maintain there's no direct connection
between Election Day and "Dunce Day" but
there is circumstantial evidence that the
previous selections made by some voters during
some elections were, well, not too bright!
    Hope you don't get sent to the corner....
 did some  studying before you went to
the polls, and that all your NEWS is good!