“With this happiness in mind we face the economists who rule our world; and tell them that the aim of intellectual education is to increase enjoyment, and that it is therefore not something to finish with adolescence, but to continue, with available leisure, so that a gentle movement of fresh thoughts be ever with us, diminishing as the volume of our treasure increases, but still there like the current through a pond that prevents stagnation, right into the stiffness of age; and that this intellectual enjoyment is in itself a part only, and a small part, of education, whose other braches feed in a vaster air, of happiness, beauty, or death.”
- Freya Stark, Perseus in the Wind
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