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
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
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of… — Plato 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
“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
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
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a… — Harold Rosenberg 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
“The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)” — Kurt Hahn 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 purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. — Bertrand Russell 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
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 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 give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational… — Anonymous 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
[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
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