Apprehension Versus Comprehension by Arthur Quiller-Couch

To nurse that spark, common to the king, the sage, the poorest child -- to fan, to draw up to a flame, to "educate" What Is -- to recognise that it is divine, yet frail, tender, sometimes easily tired, easily quenched under piles of book-learning -- to let it run at play very often, even more often to let it rest in what Wordsworth calls:

a wise passiveness