Curtain
As Education and Any City appear before the curtain, Any City is protesting in sputtering confusion.
Any City. But—but—I—I can’t for the life of me understand why your light burned so brightly over those crude drawings!
Education. Crude they were, I grant, but they meant much to me. Through them was passed on the results of my work for ages—all that I had taught the people through experience and tradition, all that they had achieved, their strivings, their conquests, their beliefs, and their dreams. Invention, originality, self-expression, call it what you will, is the gateway to Progress. Honor to the man who is not bound by old precedent, who is not swayed by might or favor, who establishes a new procedure based on right and justice. (Light directed to paper.)
Any City (in confusion, as he conceals paper). I thought that Education is training and discipline!
Education. Those are two of my attributes. Come with me and you shall see some early lessons in training and discipline.
Education and Any City withdraw from before the curtain.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The following has been adapted slightly from Hiawatha.