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.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.
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