False and the True in Education
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It is not well to crowd the mind with a class of studies that require
intense application, but that are not brought into use in practical life.
An education of this kind will be a loss to the student. For these studies
take away his desire and inclination for the studies that would fit him
for usefulness and enable him to fulfill his responsibilities.
If the youth understood their own weakness, they would find in
God their strength. If they seek to be taught by Him, they will become
wise in His wisdom, and their lives will be fruitful of blessing to the
world. But if they give up their minds to mere worldly and speculative
study, and thus separate from God, they will lose all that enriches life.
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