Discrimination

The word discriminate has two opposite meanings: to distinguish badly (racial discrimination) and to distinguish well (discriminating tastes). Public schools of course should refrain from the bad kind, but one essential function is to discriminate well.

Books

I hereby issue a public apology. Someone posted that The Silmarillion is the book that contains all the knowledge in the world, if one is clever and devious enough to find it. I accused them of heresy, because everyone knows that book is Finnegans Wake. Upon further review, I have decided that they can be two Testaments.