Men who want to learn must have a thirst for knowledge. He says, "Now learning, considered in itself, has, on my view, no connection at all with education." Learning is an activity for men who have already been humanized by education. Lewis then moves on to talk about learning. In education the master is the agent and the pupil is the patient. He says, "Human life means to me the life of beings for whom the leisured activities of thought, art, literature, conversation are the end, and the preservation and propagation merely the means." Education makes one human. Lewis says that if education is given up in the name of fairness and vocational training is given to all then civilization will die. Vocational training seeks to prepare the man not for leisure but for work. The purpose of education is to produced a "good man" and a "good citizen." This a man of good feeling and good taste, and interesting and interested man, and almost a happy man. He cites Aristotle and says that education should be preparation for leisure, which is the end of all human activity. Lewis begins this work by discussing education and learning.
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