Stanley:What's that Clive:Muscles,I think. Stanley:Clive,as you know your mother and I didn't see eye-to-eye about sending you to University.But that's past history now.The point is what use are you going to make of it Well Clive:That's rather as it turns out,I should have thought.I mean you can't judge things in advance,can you
• Stanley: What’s that ? • Clive: Muscles, I think. • Stanley: Clive, as you know your mother and I didn’t see eye-to-eye about sending you to University. But that’s past history now. The point is what use are you going to make of it ? Well ? • Clive: That’s rather as it turns out, I should have thought. I mean you can’t judge things in advance, can you ?
Stanley:Ah now,that's just what I mean.If you don't know where you're going you might just as well pack up. Clive:Why? Stanley:It's quite simple,I should have thought. Clive:It isn't.It just isn't like that.I mean if I knew where I was going I wouldn't have to go there,would I I'd be there already. Stanley:What kind of silly quibble is that
• Stanley: Ah now, that’s just what I mean. If you don’t know where you’re going you might just as well pack up. • Clive: Why? • Stanley: It’s quite simple, I should have thought. • Clive: It isn’t. It just isn’t like that. I mean if I knew where I was going I wouldn’t have to go there, would I ? I’d be there already. • Stanley: What kind of silly quibble is that ?
Clive:It's not a quibble.Look,education-being educated-you just can't talk about it in that way.It's something quite different-like setting off on an expedition into the jungle.Gradually all the things you know disappear.The old birds fly out of the sky,new ones fly in you've never seen before,and everything surprises you too.Trees you expected to be a few feet high grow right up overhead,like the nave of Wells Cathedral.Anyway if you had seen all this before,you would not have to go looking.I think education is simply the process of being taken by surprise, do you see
• Clive: It’s not a quibble. Look, education — being educated — you just can’t talk about it in that way. It’s something quite different — like setting off on an expedition into the jungle. Gradually all the things you know disappear. The old birds fly out of the sky, new ones fly in you’ve never seen before, and everything surprises you too. Trees you expected to be a few feet high grow right up overhead, like the nave of Wells Cathedral. Anyway if you had seen all this before, you would not have to go looking. I think education is simply the process of being taken by surprise, do you see ?