I refused to learn what they wanted to teach me, but stayed up ‘til all hours studying what I liked.
My wife was smarter. Her attitude was: "I'm going to beat 'em at their own game." She parroted whatever they wanted her to say, made straight As, graduated at the top of her class.
My grandson takes after her. He told me that when the teacher blathers on and on about "global warming" and 37 pronouns and the rest of the woke stupidity, he and his fellow students appear to listen attentively, and, as they walk our of class, they mutter: "What a dork!"