An individual's education consists primarily in the discipline which he undergoes to fit him both for fruitful association with his fellows and for his own special work.

Important as both the liberal and the technical aspect of this preliminary training is, it constitutes merely the beginning of a man's education.

Its object is or should be to prepare him both in his will and in his intelligence to make a thoroughly illuminating use of his experience in life.

His experience,--as a man of business, a husband, a father, a citizen, a friend,--has been made real to him, not merely by the zest with which he has sought it and the sincerity with which he has accepted it, but by the disinterested intelligence which he has brought to its understanding.

An educational discipline which has contributed in that way to the reality of a man's experience has done as much for him as education can do; and an educational discipline which has failed to make any such contribution has failed of its essential purpose.