The Value of Education

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. The whole point of teaching is that it is a way of shortening the slow process of learning under natural conditions. Education is what is left when you have forgotten everything you ever learned. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned.