“Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God’s ideal for His children. Godliness -godlikeness- is the goal to be reached. Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress, an object to achieve, a standard to attain that includes everything good, pure, and noble. Students will advance as fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge. But their efforts will be directed to objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as the heavens are higher than the earth.”

Education p.184
by Ellen G. White