Reason is that which enables us to distinguish and judge. But the passions are very strong, and we do not require education to cultivate them. Indeed, we require education to lessen the influence of the passions over us in order that reason will predominate. However, there is one passion that is indispensable for education. This passion is love.
Love manifests itself in many ways.
There are bodily loves such as the desire for food or the stimulus of the loins. There are loftier forms of love such as the love of justice or honor. The former men share with animals, the latter are specifically human forms of love. It does not require an extraordinary degree of intelligence to see that the love of justice or the love of honor are higher or superior to the love of sexual congress. Yet that intelligence or ability to reason is necessary nonetheless to understand the difference between them.