Hans Christian Andersen
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and came back a much better history?
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You see? That's the stuff
he fills the children's heads with!

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Look at this.
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"Arithmetic. A two met a four one day.
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"They liked each other immediately
and got married,

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"and all the other numbers
came to their wedding."

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- It's impossible!
- There are different ways of learning.

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A cobbler belongs in his shop,
and children belong in school.

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- Tend to your shoes. I'll tend to my school!
- To be sure.

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But is the world made up of nothing else
but shoes and schoolrooms, and...?

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There's a story
of a piece of chalk and a blackboard.

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The piece of chalk had written
so many things on the blackboard

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that it believed
it knew all about everything.

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The blackboard was angry.
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She felt that without her to write upon,
nobody would know anything,

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and she was the one
who really knew it all.

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One day, quite by accident,
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the schoolmaster broke the piece of chalk
and tossed it out of the window.

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It fell beside a pencil that the piece
of chalk had always admired.

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A pencil to a piece of chalk
is something very special.

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- And what do you suppose happened?
- What happened?

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What is this? Have we all lost our senses?
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Are you going listen to him
with the children? What is this?

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That will be enough, Hans.
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Children, pick up your schoolbooks
and go back to school. Hurry now.

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Follow the schoolmaster.
Not another word from anyone.

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I advise you, Hans, to stay in your shop
from now on. Come, gentlemen.

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Stop shaking your head at me
like an old woman, Peter.

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- I can feel it in the back of my neck.
- Hans, turn around. I've got to talk to you.


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