"... The school's reading and writing was instead a great success. In the autumn, almost all the farm animals were more or less, men of letters. As for the pigs, they already knew how to read and write perfectly. I dogs learned to read well enough, but not interested in reading that the Seven Commandments. Muriel, the goat, could read a little 'better than dogs, and sometimes in the evening, he used to read the others to newspaper clippings found in the pile bin. Benjamin could read as well but never gave the pigs to test this ability. According to him, he said, there was nothing that deserved to be read. Berta had learned the whole alphabet, but had never managed to put together the words. Gondrano could never go beyond the letter d. With its large base in the sand drew a, b, c, d, then stopped to fix the letters with his ears down, sometimes shaking his forelock on the forehead, and trying with all his might to remember what came after, but I never could. In many lessons learned, and indeed, f, g, h, but they knew when he realized he had forgotten a, b, c, d. Finally decided to settle for the first four letters and he used to write once or twice a day to refresh his memory. Mollie refused to learn anything that was not the only letters that made his name. It formed very nicely with the twigs, then decorated with some flowers and I walked around, admiring ... "
(from" Animal Farm ", George Orwell, 1945)
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