Pearl S. Buck on the wrong and the right reasons for learning

    We heed Pearl S. Buck’s words:

I was not ambitious to be learned because of the honors it might confer, for I was taught that ambition itself was not the quality of a learned person. One must love learning for its own sake. One should not, or could not, consciously want to be learned for the sake of being a learned person or a scholar, for that curtailed the pleasure of acquiring learning. To acquire knowledge and hoard it, without allowing it to flower and bear fruit in admirable personal qualities, was to become an intellectual miser.  (Quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 268.)   
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    For a brief biography of Pearl S. Buck, click here.