Anything that’s strange is no good to the average American.”i think this quote means that pickles do not go on barbecue steaks.i agree with it because it represents Americans“He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast.”i think that this quote means that something can be built so elegantly.i disagree because there are always problems.

Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dime-store window. They stood there, unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there.‘Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!‘‘Oh, my gosh!‘‘Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!‘‘Don‘t look. Maybe it‘s just a mirage.

No,” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than wind and sea and sand lying side by side forever. It was made of all the warm long days together at the beach, and the humming quiet days of droning education at the school. All the long Autumn days of the years past when I carried her books home from school.

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.