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.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
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