Dunce of the Week aims to expose such foolery. At first I worried that we might run out of dunces. But this summer has seen a long parade of them, stretching to the horizon.

The dunce His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar.

My essay refers to Trump as "a constitutional dunce." And I put the essay to bed before Trump revealed that he thinks the Constitution includes at least five more articles than it in fact contains.

First appearing in English in the l6th century, “dunce” derives from the name of one of the most influential philosophers of the Middle Ages, John Duns Scotus.

DUNCE By Mary Ruefle 99 pp. Wave Books. $25. Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar.

Dunce bat — reorientation of the education system COMPETITION is arguably the most pronounced contributor to development and evolution in human history.