Apparently--like our public-school boy--his "education" consists in learning things, not the meaning of them; he is fed upon the husks, not the corn.

From several essays written by native schoolboys in answer to the question of how they spend their day, I select one--the one which goes most into detail: "66.

At the break of day I rises from my own bed and finish my daily duty, then I employ myself till 8 o'clock, after which I employ myself to bathe, then take for my body some sweet meat, and just at 9 1/2 I came to school to attend my class duty, then at 2 1/2 P.M.I return from school and engage myself to do my natural duty, then, I engage for a quarter to take my tithn, then I study till 5 P.M., after which I began to play anything which comes in my head.

After 8 1/2, half pass to eight we are began to sleep, before sleeping I told a constable just 11 o' he came and rose us from half pass eleven we began to read still morning." It is not perfectly clear, now that I come to cipher upon it.

He gets up at about 5 in the morning, or along there somewhere, and goes to bed about fifteen or sixteen hours afterward--that much of it seems straight; but why he should rise again three hours later and resume his studies till morning is puzzling.
I think it is because he is studying history.