But just as certainly as man was created not to crawl on all fours in the depths of primeval forests, but to develop his mental and moral faculties, just so certainly he needs education, and only by means of it will he become what he ought to become,--man, in the highest sense of the word.

Ignorance is not simply the negation of knowledge, it is the misdirection of the mind.

"One step in knowledge," says Bulwer, "is one step from sin; one step from sin is one step nearer to Heaven.".