unless one is exceptionally industrious and intelligent. To neglect one’s studies as R and S have done is therefore a mistake.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 17564
1935
What subjects do you propose for my reading and what should be done by me as a student?
There is a great mass of necessary information about the world, one’s body, the evolution of the earth, the history of the human race that one ought to learn and get then1 also the training of the intellect to deal rightly with facts. All that can be done afterwards, but not so easily or so well, unless one is exceptionally industrious and intelligent. To neglect one’s studies as R and S have done is therefore a mistake.
1 Uncertain reading.