One of the oddest was a little game that
more "forward-thinking" teachers would
often give us exercises that were supposed
to develop some part or other of our
fledgling intellects.
many people of my generation are all too
familiar with -- "Clustering." It sounds
like some sort of insect behavior, I
know. The way it went was this: the
teacher, usually my horribly overweight
yet loveable English teacher (who ate
bags of mallomars and drank powdered tea)
would tell us to write something on a
piece of paper, and enclose it in a circle.
Usually something innocuous and educational, like:
