Howard W. Hunter a modern day prophet of The Church of Latter-day Saints said the following:
This gospel imperative expresses the very nature of Church education. The doctrine of making hearers into doers of the world extends to the point at which we believe that what we know and do in the gospel needs to become ingrained into the very nature of our being. Nels L. Nelson expressed this gospel imperative in one of his books defining the Mormon concept of education: "The only kind of education which squares with the ideals of Mormonism is that which trains a man to do. If it be asked, to do what, the answer is, to do the things that need to be done . . .True education is therefore training a man to do his part in the social world . . . "Knowledge is only half of intelligence. To stop here is to be falsely educated. If, however, the truth perceived becomes a dynamic fact in a man's character; if it is incorporated into his mental attitude, and reacts immediately upon his life; if, in short, it ceases to be something in a man, and becomes the man himself, changing the very . . . [character] of his soul, then knowledge has passed over into power--or character--or wisdom--or, to adopt the term used by Joseph Smith, has passed over into intelligence, and it is such a process alone that represents true education." (Scientific Aspects of Mormonism [New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904], 151-52.) (p. 134)
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