The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia
"Chile has an excellent state-run public school system, and education is mandatory until the sixth grade. So it was that even the one-hundred-fifty-person village of Amengual had had a school for ten years, and it was attended bei some twenty children, well over half of the known youth population of Middle Cisnes. The students ranged in age from five to twelve, and they were taught in two rooms - one for those whose ages were in the single digits, one four the double-digiters - by an eighty-year-old woman who had been country-teaching since, as Duck liked to say, "Indians shot farts with slingshots"."
Nick Reding / The last Cowboys at the Ende of the World / New York 2001

