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  • 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.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.14
  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

    Education   Home   School  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin
  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

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

    Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books
  • The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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

    "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.
  • The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

    Defense   Purpose   Teach  
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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

    Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”
  • The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

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

    Mother   Children   Party  
    Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.
  • The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on
  • 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 purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

    Education   Art   Two  
    "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.
  • The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

    Careers   Mind   Purpose  
    Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.107, Nation Books
  • I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

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

    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
  • 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.

    "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, books.google.ru. September 2, 2013.
  • 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.

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

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