Take, for example, the ordinary English education, and what does it amount to?
Arithmetic, and sometimes a little mathematics, reading, writing, French, sometimes German, and of course music and dancing.

Nearly all are educated in one groove, until there is in the English mind an amount of sameness that becomes monotonous." "You are speaking of the education of ladies, Mr.Voltaire ?" said Miss Emery.
"Yes, more particularly, although there is but little more variation among the men.

Take your University degrees--your Cambridge and Oxford Master of Arts, for example; what a poor affair it is! I have been looking over the subjects of examination, and what are they?
A couple of languages, the literature of two or three countries, mathematics, and something else which I have forgotten now." "You are scarcely correct, sir," said one of the young men who came in with me.

"I happen to have passed through Cambridge, and have taken the degree you mention.

I found it stiff enough." "Not so stiff, when it can be taken at your age," replied Voltaire.
"But, admitting what you say, you are all cast in the same mould.