1 I offered to assist in the young girl's education in French and dancing.
2 It's an immoderate zeal for education, but once you're educated, that's enough.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 3 It's an immoderate zeal for education, but once you're educated, that's enough.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 4 There are no sacred traditions amongst us, especially in the educated class, Avdotya Romanovna.
5 Granted, granted, I am a scoundrel, but she is a woman of a noble heart, full of sentiments, refined by education.
6 I have always respected education when in conjunction with genuine sentiments, and I am besides a titular counsellor in rank.
7 You can judge the extremity of her calamities, that she, a woman of education and culture and distinguished family, should have consented to be my wife.
8 But, nevertheless, it was clear to him again that with her character and the amount of education she had after all received, she could not in any case remain so.
9 I, of course, understood very little of it, but Dounia explained to me that, though he is not a man of great education, he is clever and seems to be good-natured.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 10 "Pyotr Petrovitch makes no secret of the fact that he had a cheap education, he is proud indeed of having made his own way," Avdotya Romanovna observed, somewhat offended by her brother's tone.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 11 For in unfolding to you the story of my life, I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners, who indeed know all about it already, but I am looking for a man of feeling and education.
12 Know then that my wife was educated in a high-class school for the daughters of noblemen, and on leaving she danced the shawl dance before the governor and other personages for which she was presented with a gold medal and a certificate of merit.
13 Katerina Ivanovna was greatly delighted to see him, in the first place, because he was the one "educated visitor, and, as everyone knew, was in two years to take a professorship in the university," and secondly because he immediately and respectfully apologised for having been unable to be at the funeral.
14 Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdainfully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist her, of "her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good education," tapping Sonia on the cheek and kissing her warmly twice.