Purpose Of Education Quotes

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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.

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

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

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

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

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.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

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

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

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

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.

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.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

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.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

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

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

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.

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.

The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.

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.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

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.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

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

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.

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

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

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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