[Mr Ramsbotham]

We have friends with kids going to a $12,000 a year private school and they have a giant list of supplies to bring as well as more “fees” than we pay at public school.

Well, hell, I don't know how people like Charles Dickens and Abe Lincoln ever managed to get an education. Maybe they were just faking it.

[gracesdad]

“Well, hell, I don’t know how people like Charles Dickens and Abe Lincoln ever managed to get an education. Maybe they were just faking it.”

Well, let’s see, Dickens had the advantage of a private education for part of his childhood and he also had a photographic memory. Both Lincoln, who, of course, was largely self-educated, and Dickens were much brighter than the average person.