The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
The test of any man lies in action.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.