September 3, 2006

  • George asked, "What's that?"
    Omani said, "This is a classroom. The young men in there are being educated. Not," he added, quickly, "in the usual way."
    "You mean they're cramming it in bit by bit."
    "That's right. This is the way everyone did it in ancient times."

    This was what they kept telling him since he had come to the House but what of it? Suppose there had been a day when mankind had not known the diatherm-oven. Did that mean he should be satisfied to eat meat raw in a world where others ate it cooked?

    Issac Asimov, "Nine Tommorrows", p.39