RELATED: Iconic Road Trips to Take Before Your Kid Grows Up Imagine scenes of horny monks soliciting women while consuming barrels of booze. His students were encouraged to swear like sailors; one exchange that’s been preserved for posterity included the insult, “May a beshitting follow you forever!” MORE: The Best Magazine Subscriptions for Kids Who Are Into Art, Science, and Nature This “Monks Gone Wild” routine wasn’t for nothing, though. Scholars believe Bata was trying to draw his students’ attention “away from conscious piecing together of grammatical structures in the foreign language and … towards communicative use of the language.” Considering Bata is one of the only teachers whose lessons have survived for over a millennium, maybe it’s time to give the man his due and admit: What the Common Core really needs is more poop jokes.
