Excerpt from Lectures for Boys, Vol. 2
AS during the Norwegian summer months the sun sinks for a few moments below the horizon, and then mounts again to run his wonted course, so this day at one and the same time brings to a close the bright holiday season, and inaugurates a new year of scholastic work. The prospect of work is not a golden one to a schoolboy’s eyes but we should imagine that among you there are few that are not Old enough and sensible enough to know that it constitutes the main staple of our lives. Play or pleasure is but a rest given to us, that we may return with greater zest to our appointed task. Therefore, manfully turn away your thoughts from the fairy scenes which memory will recall to your minds draw a curtain over the pictures of your happy homes with their circles of loving and beloved ones crush down all fond regrets that will not fail to arise, and bravely set about the accomplishment of the task which God imposes upon you.
That task, as you know so well, is the work of your educa tion, a work that is twofold in its character, dealing both with your moral and with your intellectual nature, or, as we are accustomed to say, affecting both your head and your heart. Of your physical education, of the development of your bodily frame, we need say nothing, for boys, as a rule, require no encouragement in that respect.
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