The Beautiful Things

Right living is the aim of education. A love of the beautiful is necessary for that elevation of mind and that touch of idealism without which there cannot be a prompt response to the appeal of the beautiful in conduct. Pleasure is the great bait which tempts men to be traitors to virtue. Train men to find their pleasures in what is ennobling, in what is at once true and beautiful and the bait is robbed of its harmfulness.

That is the way in which the instructional factors in education can be made to contribute to the formation of virtuous will. Cultivate in the student charity of heart, sincerity of thought , and the grace of habit which will lead him throughout life to prefer openness to affectation, realities to shadows, beauty to corruption . Beauty is not only seen in the physical appearance of a certain individual but also in its characteristics.