Lev Tolstoy
Author: Lev Tolstoy
Publisher: Modern Library Classics (2000)

In what way are schools going to help the [poor] people to improve their material position?  You say schools, education, will give them fresh needs.  So much the worse, since they won't be capable of satisfying them.  And in what way a knowledge of addition and subtraction and the catechism is going to improve their material condition, I could never make out.