Not buying it dad
My daughter before she turned 5 asked me how come Santa's reindeer can fly if they don't have wings. I said "Maybe because they have magic, that's why they can fly." She said, "Daddy, you don't have to make things up if you don't know. I'll go ask Mommy." (Via Quora)
Poor students have never had enough money
One of the first things that students learn when they go off to pursue further education is that it's expensive not living under your parents' roof. It was the same way back when college was invented. This letter is from the 1220s:
"B, to his venerable master A. Greeting. This is to inform you that I am studying at Oxford with the greatest diligence, but the matter of money stands greatly in the way of my promotion, as it is now two months since I spent the last of what you sent me. The city is expensive and makes many demands; I have to rent lodgings, buy necessaries, and provide for many other things which I cannot now specify. Wherefore I respectfully beg your paternity that by the promptings of divine pity you may assist me, so that I may be able to complete what I have well begun. For you must know that without Ceres and Bacchus, Apollo grows cold."
