Is There a School?

Every at all is a little world to itself, with a population varying from twenty-five to perhaps three hundred inhabitants. When I first learned that there are no schools throughout the islands, I thought the French guilty of criminal neglect but later I reversed this opinion. After all, why should they have schools? No education of ours could make them more generous, more kindly disposed to one another, more hospitable and courteous towards strangers than they are now. Certainly it could not make them less selfish, covetous, rapacious, for most of them are as innocent of those vices as their own children.