The Greatest Lesson that Junior Learned I believe that the greatest lesson that Junior learned is that his friends didn’t care whether he was poor or not. This is important, because throughout the book Junior wanted to hide some of the traits about him because he was worried that the other students at Rearden would make fun of him for it. There’s a scene in the book, where he is having dinner with Penelope and some of his other friends, but he doesn’t have enough money. Although he knows that he can’t afford the meal, Junior orders a lot of food, because the thing he is scared of the most is that his friends might stop hanging out with him because he isn’t wealthy like they are. While he is in the bathroom with Roger, he reveals that he doesn’t