Education is not merely the teaching of morals, or the laying down rules for behavior. The virtuous habits are not acquired by rote nor exercised automatically. The habit of virtue is that of _appropriate response_ to the situation, the response which is right because “nothing may be” taken away from it nor added to it without causing it to tend toward vicious excess or defect. There must be discrimination or one will go to extreme. Courage is not mere bravery; it is that well-considered “mean state” between fear and over-confidence. Aristotle quotes Socrates to the effect that courage is a “kind of science.” The temperate man does not feel desire “except in moderation, nor more than he ought, nor in any case improperly.” He does not desire things which are dishonorable or beyond his means. He is in the mean in all things, his desires are “according to the suggestions of right reason.” Liberality is the mean between prodigality and stinginess. It is not virtuous to give unless one gives wisely. “The liberal man therefore will give for the sake of the honorable, and he will give properly for he will give to proper objects, in proper quantities, at proper times, and his giving will have all the other qualities of right giving, and he will do this pleasantly and without pain; for that which is done according to virtue is pleasant.”... “But if it should happen to a liberal man to spend in a manner inconsistent with propriety and what is honorable, he will feel pain, but only moderately and as he ought, for it is characteristic of virtue to feel pleasure and pain at proper objects, and in a proper manner.”