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.
Interpretation
Education should develop both deep thinking and moral character.
This quote emphasizes that the purpose of education extends beyond mere academic knowledge; it should also cultivate the ability to think deeply and critically. True education aims to develop not only the intellect but also the character of individuals, preparing them to contribute positively to society.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of holistic education.
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.
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? Iβm like that. If I stop reading, I die.
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