The need of broader and better education is exercising thinkers of many nations. Spectacular scientific advances are whetting the human appetite for greater knowledge of and control over the material universe.
Recognition of a need of wider mental horizons is laudable. It bespeaks the need for breaking down much of the limited thinking which has held humanity in bondage for centuries. Mrs. Eddy recognized this need and wrote in Science and Health (p. 195): "Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal."
Part of a dictionary definition of "education" reads: "The impartation or acquisition of knowledge, skill, or discipline of character. Act or process of training by a course of study or discipline." Without discipline of character, education is incomplete. Until the advent of Christian Science, mortals were more or less in the dark about how this discipline could be effected.
