Wedgecroft. I'm not duller than the people who will have to understand your scheme.
Trebell. They won't understand it. I shan't explain to them that education is religion, and that those who deal in it are priests without any laying on of hands.
Wedgecroft. No matter what they teach?
Trebell. No ... the matter is how they teach it. I see schools in the future, Gilbert, not built next to the church, but on the site of the church.
Wedgecroft. Do you think the world is grown up enough to do without dogma?
Trebell. Yes, I do.
Wedgecroft. What!... and am I to write my prescriptions in English?
Trebell. Yes, you are.
Wedgecroft. Lord save us! I never thought to find you a visionary.
Trebell. Isn't it absurd to think that in a hundred years we shall be giving our best brains and the price of them not to training grown men into the discipline of destruction ... not even to curing the ills which we might be preventing ... but to teaching our children. There's nothing else to be done ... nothing else matters. But it's work for a priesthood.