| Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware. |
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| Now, before we question her judgment, she may well have been surrounded by dunces her entire life. |
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| But depression returned when we kept thinking it was dominated by ignorant dunces. |
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| The advertiser also takes us to be such dunces in whose heads he has to ram his message again and again. |
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| Books assigned in school were the most contemptible of all, since those dunces, our teachers, had heard of them. |
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| If the agency is willing to employ such airheads at their office, what kind of dunces do you think they'd employ for your client? |
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| While some film-makers are responsible and even gifted historians, others are dunces, bullies or class clowns. |
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| This, it was hoped, would mean fewer children being written off prematurely as dunces. |
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| As a reward, best-performing authorities will get greater financial freedom while the dunces face the threat of external intervention to sort them out. |
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| In fact, it's generally enough incentive to make industries change, and the bulk of the work consists of valuing the good students over the dunces. |
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| One in three voted him the Least Intelligent Person In Britain in a poll to find the top brainboxes and dunces. |
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