Just Do What You Know

I learned how to create text on a pdf document this week. Instead of simply writing over something with a kind of text box, I learned that, with the right font, one can change an entire line.

Reading Squirt's blog, I thought of this phrase my high school Arabic teacher used. Every Friday, when he'd quiz the class on what we did that week (vocab, whatever), students would ask him petty questions and look to him to give away the answer.

Also, kids would cheat off each other's paper. Unlike the history teacher, who'd threaten to give an automatic zero even at the suspicion of cheating, my Arabic teacher would say "Just do what you know!"

There's a lesson in the phrase. But there was also humor, cause we'd be nervous and he would just yell with light-hearted anger that we were so clueless after he taught hard all week long...