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Guidance written down by someone else is only head knowledge, drawn from their experience or their lack of it, and it cannot stand in for what you learn firsthand. In matters of love, leaning on a rulebook misleads people and can even cost them their chance at the real thing. Two people often cannot fall for each other properly until they put the lessons aside.
A schooling system built on drilling past exam papers teaches young people to look for a textbook answer to every problem, including their own feelings. The habit carries over from study into private life, so people reach for a guide when they should be acting on their own judgment. The cure is to leave this reassuring bookish habit behind and live without handrails.
Students cut teachers down to size by teasing them with nicknames, for instance pairing two teachers' surnames into the name of a romance-novel publisher. The mockery shrinks the adults' authority and turns their private lives into public entertainment. Teasing like this is part of how a school's social world runs.