THE BOOK OF
PSAYINGS
The smart student learns many things
Psaying 3
To cut school is to cut your own throat; you will never get ahead, and you will become a beggar in the streets;
2And don’t think that you can live at home forever; for your mother and I are planning to sell the house and move to Florida when we retire;
3There will be no room then for a bum who cut school when he should have known better, or for an ingrate who cannot be trusted the minute his parents’ backs are turned.
4cFor school is the place where you acquire the keys to success; and become full of useful information that will help you find a job and security.
5The smart student learns many things in school; he becomes wise in the ways of dpunctuality and attendance;
6He learns not to end a sentence with a preposition, nor to split an infinitive; he learns how to spell e“antidisestablishmentarianism,” and not to say f“ain’t.”
7Nor are these all the lessons the bright boy will learn in school; the knowledge to be gained in school is extensive and various.
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