Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Interpretation
True education aims to develop both intelligence and moral character.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that education should not solely focus on intellectual growth, but also on the development of character and ethical values. He advocates for a holistic approach to education where students learn to think critically while also understanding the importance of integrity, compassion, and social responsibility.
In practice
During a graduation speech to highlight the importance of character in 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.
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
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