Ter leering en vermaak, vers gemopper over onderwijs van Ome Theodore:
Some of our schools are not only passively non-educational, but actively anti-educational. It is perfectly possible while attending them to forget what little has previously been learnt in them. I was always astonished to discover the Muslim girls, who had been withdrawn from school (illegally, of course) at the age of twelve by their parents, in order that they should not become infected with the admittedly decadent and repellent ways of their white peers, nevertheless were better-educated, and generally knew more, than those very peers who had remained in school for a further four years. The idea that children know more, and attain useful skills, in proportion to the length of their compulsory education is simply preposterous.