# Quote — Anna Brownell Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

> The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

- Author: [Anna Brownell Jameson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson.md)
- Book: [Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada.md)
- Page: 156
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Brownell_Jameson#Winter_Studies_and_Summer_Rambles_in_Canada_(1838)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada/the-true-purpose

## More from this book

> A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada/a-man-may.md)

> As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-brownell-jameson/winter-studies-and-summer-rambles-in-canada/as-the-rolling.md)