Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection, so how, in the long run, can things improve?