"No, it will make you better if you are good, but if a bad man gets education, that doesn't make him good."
"Then is it any use to study so hard to get a good education?"
"Why certainly."
"Tell me."
"Education, Charlie, is just development. You know what development means?"
"Yes sir."
"Well, development gives strength."
"You have noticed that large tree out in the orchard. It was only a chestnut once, but now it is developed. That tree is only an educated chestnut. Which is stronger,—the chestnut tree or the little chestnut?"
"The tree, of course," said he, "but I heard some one say, I think it was just last Sunday, that education spoils some people."
"The right kind of an education will never spoil any one."