“The purpose of education is turn inquisitive young minds into rule-followers” — Department of Fear Copy Share Image
There is no purpose of education; if your heart cannot be lightened by it — Asif Z Warsi Copy Share Image
The real purpose of education in a person's life should be able to make him transform his envy into admiration. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to teach you to do the thing that needs to be done,when it needs to be… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
“I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to enlighten the student as to how to use their own mind, rather than to fill it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That… — Michael N. Nagler Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any… — Marc Aronson Copy Share Image
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist"… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. — James Rowland Angell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake. — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image