I spend my life losing height while helping you gain knowledge. Wearing a brass collar and a pink rubber hat, I leave a dark trail across your homework until I am ground down to nothing. What am I?
A pencil
A pencil wears a metal ferrule ('brass collar') and an eraser ('pink hat'), shrinks as it is sharpened, and writes lead/graphite trails on homework.
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