Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms. Shelton believed in readiness. Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth-grade on the 36. They quickly protested that the words were not on their 37 and they couldn’t learn them.

Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these 38. She said that she would teach them something that should be given. Ms. Shelton 39 by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to 40, maybe even be president someday, and she wanted to prepare them for that day.