Bishop BerkelyThinkers

Man is an animal, formidable Both from his passions and his reasons ; his passions often urging him to great evils, and his reason furnishing means to achieve them. To train this animal, and make him amenable to order, to inure him to a sense of justice and virtue, to withhold him from ill courses by fear, and encourage him in his duty by hopes; in short to fashion and model him for society, hath been the aim of civil and religious institutions ; and, in all times, the endeavour of good and wise men. The aptest method for attaining this end hath been always judged a proper education.