I was reading Chapter 11 - Experiment of Little Women while waiting for the train today. By the end of the chapter, I was smiling to myself, because just like every other chapter, the moral of the story was so obvious with real life examples of four young girls. If I had to do this literature in school, I am sure I would have enjoyed every bit of it. But with today's education, there is so little left for enjoying literature when so much emphasis is placed on scoring As. You are told when to read and how much to read and you are given homework on what you are supposed to have learnt from each chapter. We have all become robots when it comes to the education system. We only study to ace it. We don't study because we love it.
Here is the lovely part in Chapter 11 which got me smiling.
"Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success in spite of poverty."
Simply lovely!
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