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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.

If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

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Ironically, she was punished in school for not being able to keep quiet and put in a corner with a dunce cap on her head.

But, he said, the rise of Reagan, whom he considered at the time to be an “amiable dunce, and my view hasn’t changed,” made him rethink that decision.

“Now we have this clown car of a government, a parade of dunces.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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