Formation in the Love of Truth: Principles of Orthodox Education

The boast of Orthodox civilization is not the quantity of the works produced (you often hear that in classical circles in the West), nor the rate by which the ideas are exchanged, but rather the quality of the communion generated and the depth of the meaning attained. It is better to have less but go deeper than to have more, have confusion, and have diversion from the one thing needful. So our end, in Orthodoxy, the end of education must be initiation into the Spirit-the beginning of an endless ascent to divine humanity in the Church