I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
Interpretation
Education requires effort and experience, including some hardship, to develop ingenuity and problem-solving skills.
In this quote, Charles Dickens emphasizes the importance of a hands-on, sometimes harsh approach to education. By allowing a boy to face challenges and navigate the world independently from a young age, he argues that one develops sharpness and resilience, which are crucial for success in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the benefits of hands-on learning.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
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