Satoru:	If schools were restaurants, wouldn't most be out of business?
Liao:	(shrugging his shoulders) Who knows? All of us need to be more selective about quality control.
Melissa:	(nodding enthusiastically) The voices of students seldom count. Wouldn't you say most curricular-menu changes are cosmetic?
Tim:	(yawning for a dramatic pause, then pretending to be serious) Yeah. Don't most schools turn students into Mickey-Mouse consumers?
Liao:	(gesturing in disagreement) Schools are only partly to blame. The mass media and most home environments make people dumber than they should be.
Satoru:	In cynical moments, I wonder if that's merely an accident. . .