Working on my paper, including this quote, which seemed to reflect my feelings pretty much at the moment: "The masses, as before, for the greater part take away from the schools nothing but a contempt for them." Not to complain too much (I did enjoy the class), but always during tenth week/finals, I feel quite an urge to tell the entire school system to go to hell. A similar quote later from the same piece: "In Germany nine-tenths of the school population take away from school a mechanical knowledge of reading and writing, and such a strong loathing for the paths of science traversed by them that they never again take a book into their hands."