Spelling - "...and could only tell the time out of a book when it was dusk or dark..."
Time - "In our town they taught children a table showing in distinct columns dates, names of foreign kings and queens, boundary lines of states, capitals of states and counties, number of Representatives and Senators to a State, amount of money coined or printed by the U.S.A. in five-year periods, population, and so on—dry uninteresting stuff like that which no mind could ever grasp and remember for two months..."
Historical Facts - ". . . and so on — dry uninteresting stuff like that which no mind could ever grasp and remember for two months. . . "
Science - ". . . and geography would have come handy; but we never studied those. Not to save my life could I have told you where the equator was..."