"In an oppressive system, students are ‘receptacles' to be ‘filled' by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacle
s, the better teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are" how is education in this oppressive system like depositing in a bank? Who deposits what, and where is it deposited?
They think that Betty has been bewitched so if she really was she would not be able to survive hearing the Lord's name. More likely the reason was that she heard everything about the affair between John Proctor and Abby.