What is the purpose of our learning? Elder Henry B. Eyring said: “The Lord and His Church have always encouraged education to increase our ability to serve Him and our Heavenly Father’s children. For each of us, whatever our talents, He has service for us to give. And to do it well always involves learning” (“Education for Real Life,” Ensign, Oct. 2002, 17).

A woman’s pursuit of learning is a blessing to her personally, to her family, and to generations to come. The programs of Relief Society encourage sisters to gather together to engage in learning spiritual as well as temporal things. "Learn, learn, learn. . . . Learn to be a real student, an excellent student,” said Sister Marjorie P. Hinckley (Virginia H. Pearce, ed., Glimpses into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley [1999], 230).

President Hinckley urges us to embrace a love of lifelong learning: “No matter how old we grow, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it.” And he leads us in this pursuit by example: “The older I grow, the more I enjoy the words of thoughtful writers, ancient and modern, and the savoring of that which they have written. Under a divinely given mandate, we are to ‘seek learning, even by study and also by faith.’ (D&C 88:118.) And ‘whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.’ (D&C 130:18.)” (“I Believe,” Ensign, Aug. 1992, 4; paragraph divisions altered).