A paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace.
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But if her classroom is set up ‘for lecture with rows facing forward,’ she must don the dunce cap.
We don't have to look too far away and not too far back in the past to find a prime example of fire placing the symbolic dunce cap on our heads and sending us to a corner of the forest to stew about how silly we've been made to look.
Furthermore, anybody who really believes that ‘traditional’ subjects are worthy only of being taught ‘in passing’ should be given a dunce's cap and made to wear it.
Be sure to put the word out that that anyone arriving without a costume has to parade around in their underwear all night wearing a dunce cap.
If the owners, girding for a labor war that could shut down the NHL for a season or more, are clinging to a salary cap as a necessity for long-term survival, then it is more like a dunce cap.
The stupid inclusion of ‘health maintenance’ services as an insurance-paid item is a fitting dunce cap for this misbegotten mess.
During their show they ham it up, quizzing the audience about what they've been reading, threatening to send hecklers to the corner with a dunce cap, chucking books pell-mell into the audience, etc.
If he didn't, I'd place a dunce cap on his head and lead him around on a leash.
The man in the back is twisting the arm of the kneeling man in the dunce cap with the sign around his neck, who we assume is a teacher or some other intellectual type.
Last Saturday, a Scottish tabloid published a mock-up picture of him wearing a dunce's cap.
In the other format, called ‘the cap,’ what appears to be the ground is a large area of black, with a smaller colored area, looking a bit like a dunce cap, on the left and an angled bar of color running along the bottom.
Informants also recalled being made to stand in a corner, sometimes facing the wall, sometimes facing the class, sometimes wearing a dunce cap.
I hated the ‘Corner of Creativity’, it made me feel like a child thrown into the corner with the dunce cap.
They did, however, place a headpiece on her head that resembled a dunce cap.
The Democratic tent has shrunk to the size of a dunce cap.
Perhaps they need a House chamber with 435 corners where they can each put on a dunce cap and stand in one.
Put on your dunce cap and join me in the back of the class.
‘Everybody has underestimated how important the Internet is and how big an impact it's going to have, so I don't think they should be put in a corner with a dunce cap on,’ he says.
Put on the dunce cap Greg and go stand in the corner.
Those people who think taxes can be cut and still expect services to remain should be wearing a dunce's cap.