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And with that cryptic remark the superintendent vanished. "That had all the elements of a snide remark," Kennon murmured to himself, "but my education's been neglected somewhere along the line. I don't get it." He shrugged and buzzed for Copper. The veterinary report would have to be added to the pile already before him, and the Boss-man liked to have his reports on time.
"'Never mind, my boy, said I, 'that's a fault that every day will mend; you'll never grow less; so I consulted with Beck there, and with you, Dunphy, didn't I?" "You did, indeed, Mr. Roberts, and wouldn't do anything till you had spoken to me on the subject." "Eight, Dunphy, right well, you know the rest. 'Education's the point, said I to Beck ignorance is a bad inheritance.
The girls' secret was spreading poisonous tendrils over every other act and thought; nothing now seemed untouched by that malicious deception, and the very crisis now imminent was ugly! And this was what both had planned and worked for to leave Wellington at midyear? They had not reckoned on the power of girls' love for girls, and of education's influence on sentiment.
Josie Pye says she is just going to college for education's sake, because she won't have to earn her own living; she says of course it is different with orphans who are living on charity THEY have to hustle. Moody Spurgeon is going to be a minister. Mrs. Lynde says he couldn't be anything else with a name like that to live up to.
I've picked up cords of information, but an ounce of education's worth a ton of information. Don't you believe that? eh? it is so! I say it, and I'm the author of the A. of U. I. I like to call it that, because it brings you and I so near together; see?" The speaker smiled, was still, and resumed: "That's why I need you. And I'm just as sure you need me.
Barbara went back to her sofa and helped herself to a cigarette without hurry or fear that this time it would be taken from her; she smiled for a match and smiled again when it was given her. "Aren't you perhaps boasting too soon, my self-satisfied young friend? Your education's only just beginning." Eric lighted a cigarette and sat down beside her.
"Your father was over this morning." "Yes, I know." "He thinks my education's advanced far enough to trust me with a band of sheep. I'm going to have charge of the flock I've been running here with Dad Frazer." "I heard about it." "And you don't congratulate me on becoming a paid sheepherder, my first step on the way to flockmaster!"
"You must remember I inherited no means and didn't get my education without a long, hard fight. A thorough clerical education's no mean thing to get." "Couldn't the church help you?" "Oh yes I, ch I did have church aid, but Well, then I was three years a circuit rider and then I preached four years here in Suez. And then I married.
Isn't he pegging away at his studies with my hearty approval? and he's going to be nothing but a plain, common farmer. But he'll be a better one than I've been though, because he's got a trained mind. I found that out when he was a lad going to the village school. He'd lay out his little garden by geometry, and dig his ditches by algebra. Education's a help to any man.
Which was tolerable radical for a Come-Outer to say, seems to me. 'Twas Peter T. Brown that suggested it, you might know. And, as likewise you might know, 'twas Cap'n Jonadab that done the most of the growling. "They ain't no sense in it, Peter," says he. "Education's all right in its place, but 'tain't no good out of it.
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