From Leigh Bortins in The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010):
My purpose in home-centered education is to raise children who exhibit self-control, compassion, and statesmanship when displaying or exercising knowledge. I believe the ultimate goal in a classical education is to lead a child through knowledge and understanding to wisdom and virtue. If they use their knowledge exclusively for their own purposes, I have failed.
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