Roger Scruton Mean Quotations

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.