User blog comment:BenRG/Episode 6 - Thoughts and Meditations/@comment-10403005-20130823132119

I'm under the impression a LOT of initial students die in this original test. It's required, to find out who can have the kind of soul to stand against the soulless. (Likely why Ozpin was so subdued the night before)

People being people, you can't just pin down what makes a strong soul. A lot of people have different methods. Ultimately, the only way to know if it works or not is if it does. If they survived the intitiation and then the next 4 years. People come up with a lot of different plans. Ozpin sees some of them work and a lot of them die. But the humanity is under siege by Darkness, and the need is great and labourers are few.

The more I see Pyrrha and Jaune, the more it seems to me this was planned. Nobody can be as ignorant as Jaune is without it being intentional. Pyrrha was looking for Jaune from the beginning, even before she knew him.

Someone wanted a simple soul who never even heard of Aura to be bolstered by the Aura of a Champion; someone with both a strong will; and a submissive one. Maybe this results in a much stronger "Awakening" than usual?

Also, yeah:

For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release my soul and by my shoulder protect thee.

...that is NOT "I turn on the power switch in your soul and stand back."