It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
Interpretation
Education serves both practical and cultural purposes in life and society.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the dual role of education as both a tool for personal and societal utility and as a means of cultivating culture and character. He argues that education should not only equip individuals with the skills necessary to achieve their goals efficiently but also enrich their understanding of the world, contributing to the overall betterment of society.
In practice
This quote can be used in an educational seminar to highlight the importance of both practical skills and cultural understanding.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
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