My last name has gotten a bad name. Though Murphy’s Law is truer than anything else you may know, it’d be nice if someone else took the brunt of it for a while. Any Smith’s, Jones’, or Chen’s want to share this burden?

If nothing else, I’d at least like to try to upstage the infamy with a new dictum that I hope will have a positive, rather than negative, effect on generations to come, in the name of Murphy. It is this:

A student who chooses not to learn cannot be taught
A student who chooses to learn cannot be stopped.

Dissertation to follow (hopefully!).