"That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade."

                                                      -Robert Persig, The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

This quote could never be more right.  All my life I have had teachers that made their students do it the teacher's way.  The answers to test questions have to be exactly what the teacher is looking for or points will be taken away.  The teachers intentions may be for the betterment of students but other teachers just want to make the answers detailed so they could take points away.  I had a teacher intentially make questions extremely hard so there would not be that many A's in the class, that teacher admitted to it, too.  It wasn't until I went to college did i get a little of the freedom to do as i please, in school at least.  We don't have to read, we don't have to turn in the homework, we don't even have to come to class.  But there are still teachers/professors out there that want it done they're way, and I guess we'll just have to listen to them, because they're the one who has the ultimate decision of making or breaking your GPA.