Quotes on Purpose Of Education

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.