Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Какъв е смисъла на образованието - помисли си, - щом хората ще го ползват?

She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort of thing should go and was vaguely annoyed that it wasn't going.