The aim of a student's life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits. He should, and it is his duty to, propagate education among his illiterate brothers and to consider the propagation of education as part of his own education. He ought to acquire knowledge for the sake of knowledge and he should not be unaware of the needs of life.

In his first school essay, while in Class VIII, expressing his ideas and ideals, in: p. 28. - Quest for Truth (1999)