"Your life could depend on this little box," one instructor told the group.

"The second time can be worse than the first," an instructor had once told him.

The boy was all of 5, and the instructor told him to go away.

"Your instructors tell me you're doing well, top quarter of the class."

What had his instructor at the Academy told him to do when that happened?

Treat a boy like a young man, his instructor had told him, and you won't go far wrong.

But one instructor later told me that they can all tell within two turns, or even less, how skilled someone is.

She did not need to know what the other instructors were telling him.

When we finished, the instructors told us to watch our speed on the way home.

"You are not allowed to feel too otherwise," the instructor told him.