On its own, the number of hours you work has no direct bearing with on the quality of work you do (in fact, it is often inversely proportionate after a certain point). Learning likewise happens best when a student (of any age) balances a few quality periods of reflective study with engaging in earnest dialogue with others.
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Renaissance of Greatness
“Though there were times when the old traditions seemed to be on the point of failing, somehow it has happened that they have never failed; for the instinct of Civilization and the common sense of Society prevailed, and the danger passed away, and the studies which seemed to be going out gained their ancient place, and were acknowledged, as before, to be the best instruments of mental cultivation, and the best guarantees for intellectual progress.”
~ Bl. John Henry Newman, Idea of a University
A Liberal Education
“With a liberal education a man is a power in whatever work he may employ his energies. A liberal education must not propose the useful as its sole and immediate aim. And yet the useful is attained, and even in a far larger measure than if it had been sought directly for its own sake. For the mind has grown in strength and versatility […] However it may be employed, an educated mind will never be limited in its vision or its grasp to the specific work of a trade or a profession […] It is the educated mind that in all ages has advanced mankind, lifting it above sordid aims, bringing to it pure and ennobling enjoyment, prompting its highest ambitions by holding before it exalted ideals.“
— Archbishop John Ireland, Church and Modern Society, vol I.
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