THE COLLEGE MAN IN LIFE
"Non scholae sed vitae discimus."
--Seneca, Epist., 106.
[We learn for life not for school.]
"Nec si non obstatur, propterea etiam permittitur."
--Cicero, Philip., xiii, 6.
[And because a thing is not forbidden that does not make it permissible.]
"Ubicunque homo est ibi beneficio locus est."
--Seneca, De Vita Beata, 24.
[Wherever man is there is room to do good.]
"Then let us not leave the meaning of education ambiguous or ill-defined. At present, when we speak in terms of praise or blame about the bringing up of each person, we call one man educated and another uneducated, although the uneducated man may sometimes be very well educated for the calling of a retail trader, or of a captain of a ship, and the like. For we are not speaking of education in this sense of the word, but of that other education in virtue from youth upwards, which makes a man eagerly pursue the ideal perfection of citizenship and teaches him how rightly to rule and how to obey. This is the only training, which upon our view would be characterized as education; that other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all. But let us not quarrel with one another about the name, provided that the proposition which has just been granted hold good: to wit, that those who are rightly educated generally become good men. Neither must we cast a slight upon education, which is the first and fairest thing that the best of men can ever have, and which, though liable to take a wrong direction, is capable of reformation. And this work of reformation is the great business of every man while he lives."
--Plato, Laws (Jowett), Vol. IV, p. 174. Scribner, 1902.