GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Naturally wise

"Whatever I acquired, I tried to impart to Joe. This statement sounds so well that I cannot in my conscience let it pass un-explained. I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society [...].

The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study and a broken slate and a short piece of slate pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco. I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air than anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did."

Charles Dickens