The best that most education does for our children is only what the devil did for Christ.

It takes them up to the top of a high mountain and shows them all the kingdoms of this world; the kingdom of history, the kingdom of letters, the kingdom of beauty, the kingdom of science.

It is a splendid vision, but unfortunately fugitive: and since the spirit is not fugitive, it demands an objective that is permanent.

If we do not give it such an objective, one of two things must happen to it.

Either it will be restless and dissatisfied, and throw the whole life out of key; or it will become dormant for lack of use, and so the whole life will be impoverished, its best promise unfulfilled.