Purpose Of Education Quotes

• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Learning, Thinking

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• The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

  Plato

  Education, Giving, Perfection

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• The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Criminals

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Purpose, Citizenship

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

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• In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

  Michael N. Nagler

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Flames, Purpose, Kindles

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• There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

  David W. Orr

  Mean, Successful, People

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• The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Decision, Looks

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• The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Purpose, Students, Tyranny

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• The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

  Chris Hedges

  Careers, Mind, Purpose

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.107, Nation Books

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Real, Fiction

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

  Chris Hedges

  Education, Mistake, Thinking

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• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

  Peter McWilliams

  War, People, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Goal, Achieve

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• We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, Giving

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Education, Home, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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