The $35 a week cited for the allowance is an error - should be $35 a day, I think

My, apart from Rhrosty, the nasties are out in force today.
The purpose of old style "education" that I was subjected to in the early 60's was to teach the pupils/students WHAT to think. And to create robotized conformists who "knew" their place in the social pecking order. And who, in the case of males, would march of "faithfully" to be slaughtered in the never-ending imperial wars, of which John WINSTON Howard was a fully paid up enthusiast.

It was certainly not purposed to stimulate or encourage free enquiry in to any topic including, and especially religion. Or any kind of creative imagination or artistic expression.

Its purpose was to create the ordinary dreadfully sane one-dimensional obedient every person.
Litte boxes made out of ticky-tacky - all the SAME.

Classic works from and about the post-war years up to the early 60's which summed up the situation.
One Dimensional Man Marcuse
The Hidden Persuaders Packard
Captains of Consciousness Ewen
Culture Against Man Jules Henry

And for life in the 21st century
This Little Kiddy Went To Market Beder
Anything featured on The Global Rearch Project in Canada
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com
the blog/website of
Andrew Gavin Marshall.

Yes, $35 a week was an error, which I've corrected above. It is now $35 per day.

Pity you were too dumb to absorb that education Daffy. If you had managed to, you might even be a happy little duck today, rather than a miserable bitching quacker.

You see ducky, if you just let it flow around you, absorb what is good, [& much is], & ignore the rest, but quietly, you can do your own thing, with their blessing. They may think you are a bit of an eccentric, but they are tolerated, & even admired

Fight kick scream & bitch, & everyone knows you're a misfit, everywhere. As misfits spread their misery every where they go, & are best avoided. So lighten up, treat the world as an ant colony provided for your personal amusement, & BE HAPPY.

Gee Daffey, I and all my mates went through the same education system and guess what? None of those tewible things happened to us.

teach the pupils/students WHAT to think. And to create robotized conformists who "knew" their place in the social pecking order
Daffy Duck,
Two things fundamentally wrong with that sentence. Pupils were taught to think & the robots are the new educated intellectuals.
You obviously came from a hippie family & you missed out on a lot of schooling but don't despair, there's TAFE where you can get taught by experts & get a certificate in anything in just four evening classes..