He won't do if he can't respect those above him.

How long it took him, even here, to learn the lesson of obeying!" "Well, I wish I were alongside of him," said Tom.

"If I can't be at Rugby, I want to be at work in the world, and not dawdling away three years at Oxford." "What do you mean by 'at work in the world' ?" said the master, pausing with his lips close to his saucerful of tea, and peering at Tom over it.
"Well, I mean real work--one's profession--whatever one will have really to do and make one's living by.

I want to be doing some real good, feeling that I am not only at play in the world," answered Tom, rather puzzled to find out himself what he really did mean.
"You are mixing up two very different things in your head, I think, Brown," said the master, putting down the empty saucer, "and you ought to get clear about them.

You talk of 'working to get your living,' and 'doing some real good in the world,' in the same breath.