HAROLD CRESSY

It is not generally considered that education has any connection with happiness. Nor is this all. One may state that happiness in the highest and best sense can only be attained by the educated man. By happiness I do notmean the passing and momentary pleasures the gratification of the senses brings, but rather the true and calmer joys of the mind. Such happiness man is by nature entitled to; but it is only the man of education and refinement that lives to taste it. His physical and intellectual faculties being highly developed, he derives the greatest benefit and satisfaction from their exercise; and, being capable of distinguishing the true metal from the counterfeit, he is able to pursue happiness with the greatest hope of success.

- Harold Cressy,"The Necessity of Education", A. P. O., July 29, August 12, 1911.