It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.

In Dunne’s characteristic satirical vein, the line skewers a certain idea of “proper” education: that the subject matter is less important than the discipline of enduring it. The joke turns on a perverse standard—success in study is implied to come from not liking what you do—mocking institutions and social expectations that treat discomfort as proof of seriousness or moral worth. Read more broadly, it criticizes credentialism and joyless self-improvement, suggesting that when education is valued mainly as a test of conformity and stamina, curiosity and genuine engagement become irrelevant.