"Here you go!" 

Four books with neatly bound covers and titles like LEV'S WRITING ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY 2016-2017.

Do the books have words in them or just bland semi-impressionist sketches?

They have words! And a table of contents! And an index!

1. Tracking Colisteners’ Knowledge States During Language Comprehension

2. People Make the Same Bayesian Judgment They Criticize in Others

3. Are Bigger Brains Smarter? Evidence From a Large-Scale Preregistered Study

4. Sudden Events Change Old Visual Objects Into New Ones: A Possible Role for Phasic Activation of Locus Coeruleus

5. Volume Estimation Through Mental Simulation

6. Self–Other Agreement in Personality Reports: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Self- and Informant-Report Means

7. The Decoy Effect as a Nudge: Boosting Hand Hygiene With a Worse Option

Wow!

Faye is pretty sure she’s not smart enough to understand any of that, though; she hands the book to Sasha. 

He definitely doesn't understand any of that but it's more a case of lack of familiarity than not being smart enough. If he tries to read it, are there at least words? 

There are totally words! That form coherent sentences and everything!

"So as long as I never want to say anything new, we're okay."

"At least it'll let you read about social science? That's better than nothing, right?" 

"I'm going to miss teaching. It was the best part of my job."

"I'm sorry." 

If he curls around Lev more and squeezes his hand, does that seem to help any?

“Maybe you could still enjoy teaching something that wasn’t related to your work? Um, let me know if you just want sympathy instead of me brainstorming advice.”

"I bet I could but I don't know that much about things that aren't social science. I guess I used to do SAT tutoring, if anyone wants to learn high-school math I could probably teach them."

“I dropped out of high school, so. I don’t have a burning desire to learn high school math or anything, and I was kind of bad at it so I don’t know if I’d be a good student, but. I’m here if you ever miss teaching, I guess?”

"There's no such thing as a bad student, only bad teachers."

"I never liked math but I think that was at least half that most of my teachers barely cared. I'll teach poetry and art history and you can teach math?" 

"I'd love to learn about art history from you."

“I gotta say, I didn’t expect heaven to involve so much school. Not that I’m opposed! It seems like a good plan to me. Just, unexpected. Hopefully I do better here than I did in actual school. Not being in my tragic backstory will probably help, at least.”

"Tragic backstories do tend to interfere with school." Not that he would know anything about that. "And hopefully this will be more fun than actual school anyway. If it's not, tell me and I'll try changing tack?" 

“Gotcha, I can do that! I’d be surprised if it wasn’t, though. Poetry and art seem harder to make boring than a lot of subjects, because even if I’m not understanding anything it’s still pretty.”

A knock on the door. 

Faye opens it. “Hello? —Oh, hi, Michael!”

"Hello, Faye! Can we speak in my office for a minute?"

“Yeah, sure!” She calls back to Sasha and Lev letting them know she’s going to talk to Michael and that she’ll be back in a minute. 

And, poof, she's in Michael's office. 

"So, Faye, I wanted to know how you were settling in in the Good Place."

"I'm settling in well, I think! The first day was, um, rough, but first days always are, right? Today was definitely better. Sasha's going to be teaching me about poetry and art."