"Oh. Well, that's very sad, then, that you don't find any merit in your time in school. I would have thought you the type of person to think every year was her best year."
Theo couldn't help it, he found it vaguely distasteful the way so many people considered time in school a 'waste', and he shuffled his books around like he was going to get down to studying. Except, ironically and annoyingly, he still didn't feel like working.