“What sort of boy are you trying to make?”
“How will he differ from an uneducated boy?”
“I don’t mean in manners, I mean how will he differ in imagination?”
“Yes—I said—imagination.”
“Don’t you know that education is building up an imagination? I thought everybody knew that.”
“Then what is education doing?”
Here usually the Catechized would become troublesome and the Catechist short and rude. The Catechism would be not so much continued as resumed after incivilities and a silence.
“What sort of curriculum is my ward to go through?”
“Why is he to do Latin?”
“Why is he to do Greek?”