Quotes on True 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.

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

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.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.

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

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.