The purpose of education is not to qualify one for getting through life
on a minimum of toil.---The test of learning is service.
As knowledge becomes a matter of action, it becomes a matter of purpose,
ideal, and character.
The years teach us that the only test of the correctness of any
educational method is its result in terms of life.
The growing life most easily adapts itself to newly discovered fact.
One may take a vine and train it in any direction. One may take a young
life and make of it what he will.
A great many parents are wondering these days why their children did not
grow up to be good.
A man’s education can not be measured by what he has committed to memory,
but by what he has learned by heart. Education is no more what one knows
than what he is.
The testimony of opinion is uncertain. The testimony of experience is
final and unanswerable. Arguments on the existence of love do not count
with one who loves. The thing experienced demands no proof by
logical processes.