New age teachers

In our day, teachers used to tell us to study hard all through the term, so that we could ease up on the day before the examinations were due to begin: that, they said, was the key to doing well. Not that all of us (or even most of us) listened, but that is how we were advised.

Times have changed, and so have teachers, except, I suppose, for a few stick-in-the-muds like me. Recently the Principal of a leading school advised the school assembly to start studying as 'the exams were approaching'. The said exams were supposed to begin the next day.