Education Is The Movement From Darkness To

There Is No Real Education That Does Not Respond To Felt Need; Anything Else Acquired Is Trifling Display.

In America We Have Only The Bourgeoisie, And The Love Of The Heroic Is One Of The Few Counterpoises Available To Us. In Us The Contempt For The Heroic Is Only An Extension Of The Perversion Of The Democratic Principle That Denies Greatness And Wants Everyone To Feel Comfortable In His Skin Without Having To Suffer Unpleasant Comparisons. Students Have Not The Slightest Notion Of What An Achievement It Is To Free Oneself From Public Guidance And Find Resources For Guidance Within Oneself.

Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication Of The Soul's Raw Passions - Not Suppressing Them Or Excising Them, Which Would Deprive The Soul Of Its Energy - But Forming And Informing Them As Art.

The Utilitarian Behaves Sensibly In All That Is Required For Preservation But Never Takes Account Of The Fact That He Must Die... His Whole Life Is Absorbed In Avoiding Death, Which Is Inevitable, And Therefore He Might Be Thought To Be The Most Irrational Of Men, If Rationality Has Anything To Do With Understanding Ends Or Comprehending The Human Situation As Such.

The Sirens Sing Sotto Voce These Days, And The Young Already Have Enough Wax In Their Ears To Pass Them By Without Danger.