"A man is being truly educated when his training is exactly levelled at what he ought to be:--first of all a high type of man in general, and next, a good performer of his calling. Let him have a scheme of facts that will give him an idea of the ALL: then show him his part in it." "Let him be taught in a simple way the logic of facts." "Let him be taught to seek the best sources only of information." "Let him be taught in school the falsity of the chief political sophisms." "Let him be branded with a few business principles of life in general: such as how much to save, and where to put it, and the wisdom of insurance." "Let him learn these three maxims of experience:" "Gain experience." "Gain experience at the lowest possible price." "Never risk gaining the same experience twice." "Seek for him, in fine, not learning so much as wisdom, the essence of learning." "But especially, let every Canadian be educated to see The National Work, and how to do it." "In short, educate for what you require and educate most for the greatest things you require, and in manner such that everyone may be equipped to stand anywhere without help, and fight a good battle." "It is an Ideal Character, however, a character perfectly harmonized with his destinies as a soul, and his condition as a citizen, that is the most important armour in the panoply of the Canadian. Purity and elevation of the national character must be held sacred as the snowy peaks of Olympus to the Greek. And as those celestial summits could never have risen to their majesty without foundations of more humble rocks and earth; so we must lay foundations for our finer aspirations by the acquirement of certain basal habits:" "The Habit of Industry." "The Habit of Economy." "The Habit of Progress." "The Habit of Seriousness." "In other words the habits of honestly acquiring, keeping and improving, all good things, material, intellectual and moral, and of dealing with the realities of things." "The Habit of Seriousness may seem strange to insist upon, but one has only to mark the injury to everything noble, of an atmosphere of flippancy and constant strain after smart language. There is nothing in flippancy to have awe of--any one can learn the knack of it--but it is foolish and degrading, while seriousness is the color of truth itself."