It should not be painful but delightful; and throughout the process the child's skill in the arts of reading, writing, and ciphering should be steadily developed.
Now, reading, writing, and simple ciphering are merely the tools by the diligent use of which a rational education is to be obtained through years of well-directed labor.
They hit so much larning into en that 'a could talk like the day of Pentecost; which is a wonderful thing for a simple boy, and his mother only the plainest ciphering woman in the world.
他们对 en 的学习如此之多, 以至于“a 可以像五旬节那天一样说话; 这对一个单纯的男孩来说是一件了不起的事情, 而他的母亲只是世界上最朴素的女人。