The passage starts out generalizing a concern that education does not actually teach but it ends up being about comfort in mediocrity.
Explanation:
<u> The passage's theme is resistance to change.</u>
The first line seems acceptable in a way, that there is skepticism regarding how much a school education could help a person.
Later on however it is quite evident that the passage is more concerned with the domestication of women as the farm secludes them to the domestic even as it presents a facade of the outside world.
Then the passage says that its not good to make sacrifices for the family and ultimately that people with an advantage are not interesting.<u> It shows that the passage is fundamentally about resistance to change. A person with an advantage will take one out of the comfort zone hence is one that one should be afraid of.</u>
