In plain words
The foreigner: “My boy! I am not in good health. This smoke does not agree with me. If you feel like smoking, go to the bathroom and smoke,” he said. At that the student: “It is my business. This cigarette is mine. I bought it. So I will smoke as I please and blow out the smoke. If you don't like it, go and sit in the bathroom yourself,” he answered rudely. Are modern students like this, he wondered in amazement. Not wanting to argue with the boy, he kept silent. After a while the foreigner got up and went to the bathroom. Before he came back, the student threw his shoes out of the train. The sight caught his eye. But thinking it was not good to quarrel with him, he lay down on his berth. Some time later the student got up and went to the bathroom. Then the foreigner, meaning to teach him a lesson, took the boy's coat that was hanging there and threw it out. When the boy came back and asked, “Where is my coat?”, he replied, “Your coat has gone to look for my shoes.”
Education gives humility...
Whatever we say, whatever we do, we cannot escape experiencing its ‘reaction, resound, reflection’. When we use sacred words, we receive sacred words from others too. If we use harsh words, we will have to receive harsh words from others. So whoever it may be, one must use soft and sweet speech. Educated or uneducated, one must behave with humility and obedience.
Education gives humility; through humility one gains worthiness; through worthiness, wealth; through wealth, Dharma; and through that man gains the joys of this world and the next.
Good qualities, a good mind, devotion to truth, Bhakti, discipline, the fulfilment of duty: what teaches these is education; this the student must learn. the word of Śrī Sāī is a word that tells the truth.