an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

The problem that confronts most of us is whether the individual is merely the instrument of society or the end of society. Are you and I as individuals to be used, directed, educated, controlled, shaped to a certain pattern by society and government; or does society, the State, exist for the individual? Is the individual the end of society; or is he merely a puppet to be taught, exploited, butchered as an instrument of war? That is the problem that is confronting most of us. That is the problem of the world; whether the individual is a mere instrument of society, a plaything of influences to be moulded; or whether society exists for the individual.

So, while you are young you must begin to find out what is this strange thing called happiness. That is an essential part of education.