The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
Interpretation
The ultimate purpose of learning is to understand and emulate a divine being.
This quote by John Milton suggests that the highest goal of education and learning is not just the acquisition of knowledge but rather the deep understanding of God's nature. From this understanding stems the desire to love and imitate God, emphasizing that true knowledge leads to moral and spiritual growth.
In practice
This quote can be used in a religious education class to inspire students about the purpose of their studies.
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape_x000D_ _x000D_ Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
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