What can be more pitiful than an unhappy wretch unaware of his own sorry state, bewailing the death of Dido, who died for love of Aeneas, yet shedding no tears for himself as he dies for want of loving you?
St. Augustine, Confessions I.13 (Pine-Coffin translation)
One of the classic stories is that of the ill-fated love between the Carthaginian queen Dido and the Trojan hero Aeneas in Vergil's epic, the Aeneid. Augustine's point is well taken in a Classical Christian school. Any study is useless if it is separated from the development of our right relationship with God.
[W]e ought to have been brought up in a particular way from our very youth, as Plato says, so as both to delight in and to be pained by the things we ought; this is the right education.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1104b (Ross translation)
This, of course, echoes the truth expressed in Proverbs 22:6, "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." (NIV) The fact that this truth is expressed in a non-Christian author as well as in Scripture points out the value of studying truth wherever it is found, for all truth, if it be true, is rooted in Jesus Christ.
The investigation itself of very important and at the same time quite obscure matters holds pleasure. If indeed it happens that something like the truth is discovered, one's spirit is filled with a most human pleasure.
Cicero, Academica II.XLI.147, Perkins translation
Learning is about so much more than just the acquisition of knowledge that will help us make more money. It is about the pursuit of knowledge, a pursuit that itself is a pleasurable activity. We were designed by God to learn the truth about His creation, and it is no surprise that the One Who created the lush Garden of Eden would make this enterprise of learning naturally enjoyable.