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 it’s not great for the rest of us, either. This means at least one person in every room is in the wrong place. NO WONDER WE ARE ALL SO CONFUSED.
-It will also be disappointing for teachers, since it implies ''all of them are in the wrong room, all the time''. A teacher either (i) ''is'' the smartest person in the room, and ergo ''is'' in the wrong room, or
+It will also be disappointing for teachers, since it implies ''all of them are in the wrong room, all the time''. A teacher either (i) ''is'' the smartest person in the room, and ergo ''is'' in the wrong room, or (ii) is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case she is meant to be teaching at people at least some of whom are smarter than she is, meaning by usually standards in modern education, she is in the wrong room.
-is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case she is meant to be teaching at people at least some of whom are smarter than she is, meaning by usually standards in modern education, she is in the wrong room.
 It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref>
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 And I need the loo.
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