If the answer was incorrect, the teacher would administer a shock to the learner, with the voltage increasing in 15-volt increments for each wrong answer.

If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.

If the teacher asked whether the learner might suffer permanent physical harm, the experimenter replied, " Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on ".

If the teacher said that the learner clearly wants to stop, the experimenter replied, " Whether the learner likes it or not, you must go on until he has learned all the word pairs correctly, so please go on ".

Only much later in the story is the secret revealed, when Malik is hypnotized by Hagbard Celine to recall suppressed memories of his first-grade teacher conditioning his class to ignore the fnords: " If you don't see the fnord it can't eat you, don't see the fnord, don't see the fnord ..."

" Rav Soloveitchik, my teacher, always used to say: ' If you know law, then you don't need ordination ; and if you don't know, then ordination won't make a difference.

If one is not paying attention, or if the teacher has not explained the drill properly, the training can accelerate and become competitive ; if this happens, the students are missing the point of the exercise altogether.

After being chosen to be the first teacher in space, McAuliffe was a guest on several television programs, including Good Morning America ; the CBS Morning News ; the Today Show ; and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where, when asked about the mission, she stated, " If you ’ re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don ’ t ask what seat.

Even a teacher, though, is usually justified in saying, " If you didn't want to fail the quiz, then you should have done your homework instead of skateboarding / watching TV / etc.

After later confirming that he was indeed correct, Hay realized, " If my father could be wrong, then the teacher could be wrong.

If a suitable teacher could not be sourced they themselves would do so until an alternative arrangement emerged.

If the teacher picked a specific day ( say September 16 ), then the chance that at least one student was born on that specific day is, about 7. 9 %.

Two weeks later, one day after the Cowboys ' 27-17 loss to the Detroit Lions, a team that had come into the game tied with the Chiefs, Giants and Rams for the worst record in the NFL, Schramm said on his radio show " There's an old saying, " If the teacher doesn't teach, the student doesn't learn ".

Kierkegaard says, " If Agamemnon himself, not Calchas, should have drawn the knife to kill Iphigenia, he would only have demeaned himself if in the very last moment he had said a few words, for the meaning of his deed was, after all, obvious to everybody, the process of reverence, sympathy, emotion, and tears was completed, and then, too, his life had no relation to spirit-that is, he was not a teacher or a witness of the spirit.

If it is necessary to hire a tutor to assist with a child's homework, parents should also speak to the child's teacher about the amount and the appropriateness of the homework load.

If no related family member is willing or able to adopt, the next preference is for the child to be adopted by the foster parents or by someone else involved in the child's life ( such as a teacher or coach ).

The spirited Sarah is engaged to Lord Hugh, a wealthy but rigid young nobleman, but she and her music teacher have fallen in love (" If You Could Only Come With Me ").

If this kind of behavior were to occur in a classroom environment, a teacher could use guilt in an attempt to shape the spoiled child's self-concept by reminding the student that hitting others is not acceptable in most social situations.

If necessary, the teacher can help them translate any words they don't know.

If the singer were more comfortable singing higher, then the teacher would probably classify her as a soprano and if the singer were more comfortable singing lower, then they would probably classify her as a mezzo-soprano.

If they are absent for whatever reason, someone else — usually, another previous Queen or King, a popular teacher, or other designated person — will perform those duties.

If they performed well on a test, they might think the teacher was lenient or that they were lucky.

If the player improvises a rap successfully two times in a row, it accesses Cool mode, where the teacher leaves PaRappa to do freestyle by himself.

If one did not have a teacher, then one had to work out the rhythm by themselves.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If the barn-burner's family produces a Flem Snopes, who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness, the Compson family produces a Jason Compson 4.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.