The idea of public education was for coal miners, who would work in the coal mines all day, then they'd come home and they should have the dignity to be able to read a novel and understand it.
A ideia de educação pública era para os mineiros de carvão, que trabalhavam lá durante o dia, depois voltavam pra casa e deviam ter a dignidade de poderem ler um romance e compreendê-lo.