How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
'Why, the very sons of the old women who do the washing of the colleges can talk in Latin.' (1.4.9)
This just feeds Jude's need to get to Christminster. Education is everywhere there. Even the lower classes pick it up as though Latin is floating around in the air. To a kid who taught himself Latin and Greek from textbooks, the idea of a place where everyone, even the washing women, will sympathize with his interest in the classics must sound like paradise.
Quote #5
He concluded that a grammar of the required tongue would contain, primarily, a rule […] which once known, would enable him […] to change at will all words of his own speech into those of the foreign one. (1.4.44)
Wouldn't that be awesome? You could just learn a code and speak French or Italian. Sadly, it doesn't work that way, and when Jude finds out, he gets extremely frustrated.
Quote #6
Or he never could have executed with such zest the undertakings […] since they now involved reading most of the night after working all day. (2.2.17)
Jude approaches learning with a religious zeal. At times, he'll approach religion with a religious zeal, but it still always comes back to education with him. And he sticks to his love of Christminster long after he seems to have lost his interest in religion entirely.