| This, it was hoped, would mean fewer children being written off prematurely as dunces. |
| 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? |
| Books assigned in school were the most contemptible of all, since those dunces, our teachers, had heard of them. |
| While some film-makers are responsible and even gifted historians, others are dunces, bullies or class clowns. |
| Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware. |
| As a reward, best-performing authorities will get greater financial freedom while the dunces face the threat of external intervention to sort them out. |
