How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in the broad daylight." (7.219)
We urge you to imagine Mrs. Reilly saying "weenies" with her harsh Yat accent, each word a nasal explosion tearing out your eardrum. For Lana, a book adds class to the pornography; for Mrs. Reilly, Ignatius's learning makes his commercial efforts more humiliating. Either way, education is a function of class and a marker of classiness (or the lack thereof.)
Quote #8
You could tell by the way that he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him. George had been wise enough to get out of school as soon as possible. He didn't want to end up like that guy. (11.260)
Y'all need to be careful reading this learning guide—too much smarts and you'll end up like Ignatius. The horror, right? Anyway, George has a naïve, sincere anti-intellectualism, and he actually seems to pity Ignatius. From George's perspective (and perhaps from the novel's) Ignatius isn't incapable and slothful despite his education; he's incapable and slothful because of it.
Quote #9
"If I go to college I wouldn be draggin no meat wagon around sellin people a lotta garbage and s***."
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"Just as I suspected," Ignatius said angrily. "In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that you'd like to become a success or something equally vile." (11.374-377)
Jones thinks education can be used to move up the social ladder; you go to college in order to get a better job. Ignatius rejects that idea adamantly; his education has taught him to avoid success, and indeed any work. He fails because he has learned in school that failure is best (which is more or less what George suspects in the previous quote).