Once for some dreary and self-denying purpose I read many books on education—not method, which is not my concern, or the psychology of childhood, which interests me deeply, but Education with a big E. I came to the conclusion that if two were kept, the rest might, with no loss to humanity and possibly some advantage, be pulped... One of these books is Aristotle's Ethics, and the other is Newman's nine discourses on The Idea of a University.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Once for some dreary and self-denying purpose I read many books on education—not method, which is not my concern, or the psychology of childhood, which interests me deeply, but Education with a big E. I came to the conclusion that if two were kept, the rest might, with no loss to humanity and possibly some advantage, be pulped... One of these books is Aristotle's Ethics, and the other is Newman's nine discourses on The Idea of a University." in the context of "G. M. Young, Victorian Essays (1962), p. 142" to mean that wisdom is timeless.