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You're not a good student if you never cause trouble for your teachers.

The problem is it takes a good teacher to distinguish between good trouble indicating an engaged student having fun with the material (e.g. a class mate of mine and I went through a phase of handing in homework in non-latin scripts; to our teachers great credit she tolerated Cyrillic, Etruskan and Sanskrit without the slightest complaint) and bad trouble.



My high school science teacher took it as I was bored, and gave me open-ended research questions to occupy me.

e.g. Why is the sky blue during the day, and red at sunset?

Though that's much easier to answer today, it taught me some great skills, and how to not be afraid of failure or rejection.

I ended up having some great conversations with the professors at my local universities.


Yes, I was similarly lucky for the most part that when I was "causing trouble" it tended to result in further challenges rather than complaints.




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