[Calvin Locke]

In ancient Rome, students were known to attack and kill the teacher with writing implements - the styluses they used to write on wax tablets.

I've read accounts of Iranian (during the Shah) air force trainees in the US deliberately doing suicide dives, with the instructor, to avoid flunking out and returning home in disgrace, even if it was in one piece.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I've read accounts of Iranian (during the Shah) air force trainees in the US deliberately doing suicide dives, with the instructor, to avoid flunking out and returning home in disgrace, even if it was in one piece.

Grumman test pilot Don Evans was in Iran training pilots for the Shah. He said that when he told a student that what he was doing could get him killed, he responded, “Abdul not afraid to die."