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Dichotomies A dunce is a person considered incapable of learning.

Dunces are often comedically shown wearing paper cone hats, known as dunce caps with the word "dunce" or "dumb", or simply a capital D, on them.

Schoolchildren were sometimes compelled to wear a dunce cap and to stand or sit on a stool in the corner as a form of punishment for misbehaving or for failing to demonstrate that they had properly performed their studies.

When in the sixteenth century the Scotists argued against Renaissance humanism, the term duns or dunce became, in the mouths of the Protestants, a term of abuse and a synonym for one incapable of scholarship.

A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools in Europe and the United States.

In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to unruly schoolchildren to wear.

Frequently the "dunce" was made to stand in the corner, facing the wall.

The hope was that no one would want to be labelled the "dunce" in the class, even for a short period of time, and thus students would avoid misbehaviour.

Examples of behaviour which could warrant the dunce cap included throwing spitballs, passing notes, or pulling of hair.

Class clowns were frequently admonished with the dunce cap.

In modern pedagogy, punishments like dunce caps have fallen out of favor.

) However, the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition) records that the term "dunce cap" itself did not enter the English language until after the term "dunce" had become a synonym for "fool" or "dimwit".

In fact, "dunce cap" is not recorded before the 1833 travel book America, and the Americans by James Boardman.