Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The saying frames education not as mere acquisition of knowledge or social advancement, but as moral formation: a process that loosens the grip of ego and enlarges one’s sympathies. “Educate us out of self” suggests that the educated person should become less governed by private interest, vanity, or faction, and more capable of identifying with others. The destination is “selflessness,” understood as a cultivated capacity for fellow-feeling and civic-mindedness that “links us with all humanity.” In this view, education’s highest end is ethical and social: producing persons fit for humane judgment, public responsibility, and solidarity beyond narrow class or national boundaries.