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Ditch the labels, set your own standards

In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, we meet a seven-year-old orphan boy named Pip. The story is set in England in the 1800s when there was a great divide between peasants and gentle folk – basically the poor and the well-to-do. Ironically, more than 200 years later, there still is.

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