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Principle 1: Nobody can teach you as well as you can teach yourself

Principle 2: merely listening to your teachers and completing theri assignments if never enough

Principle 3: Not everything you are assigned to read or asked to do is equally important

Prinple 4: Grades are just subjective opinions

Principle 5: making mistakes and occasionally appering foolish is the pirce you pay for learning and improving

Principle 6: the point of a question is to get you to think - not simply to answer it

Principle 7: you are in school to learn to think for yourself, not to repeat what your textbooks and techers tell you

Principle 8: subjects do not always seem interesting or relevant, but being actively engaged in learning them is better than being passive bored and not learning them

Principle 9: few things are as otentially difficult, frustrating, or frightening as genuine learning. Yet nothing is so empowering

Principle 10: how well you do in school reflects your attitude and your method, not your ability

Principle 11: If you are doing it for the grades or for the approval of others, you are missing the satisfaction of the process and putiting your self-esteem at the mercy of things outside your control

Principle 12: school is a game, but it is a veyr important game