Ian was pleased to receive an affirmation of his answer. He listened as other students spoke and answered the question as well and the teacher seemed to be really excited to have such a broad diversity of answers. It was odd, really. They couldn't all be correct, could they? he wondered to himself.

As he listened to the headboy's question he thought about it as he listened to the others. Ian had heard many stories about the bible when he went to church with his parents and he tried to listen to the priests and the bible teachers but much of it ended up sounding like blah, blah, talky, talky. He had asked his father about it once and his father just answered, Because that's always the way we've done it, since those Catholics showed up. It wasn't a very satisfying answer, but he had never gotten a better one from either the Priests, the teachers or his parents.

He raised his hand though and offered this thought, Professor, Much of our own history came down through stories told from one generation to the next. Perhaps it was just a matter of tradition that these stories, originating in oral histories were written down to be passed on. This was a rather interesting topic, Ian thought to himself. He wondered at what point Bart would fall asleep talking about books.