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Quote #10
Money's no object; teach him, he's a natural, / Why, when he was just a little tyke this high, / he could build sand-castles, carve a little boat, / he'd put together cars from balsawood / and frogs from lemonpeels, as pretty as you please! / Just see that he learns that pair of Arguments, / the Better, whatever that is, and the Worse, / the one that makes the weaker case the stronger. / Or, if not both, at the very least the Worse. (877-885)
Just in case anyone was unclear on this point, Strepsiades makes totally clear here that he doesn't really give a hoot about his son learning philosophy for any other reason than to get his debts forgiven or forgotten. Whatever happened to learning for the sake of learning?