“School is shortened, discipline relaxed philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts.”
School is Shortened,
Discipline relaxed,
Philosophies, histories, languages
Dropped.
English and spelling
gradually neglected.
Finally, almost, completely
Ignored.
Life is immediate
and the job counts,
but pleasure lies all about.
Why learn anything?
-The passage above is an excerpt from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
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