Being bored Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or…

— Mortimer Adler

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the…

— John Dewey

At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of…

— Henry Adams

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have…

— Jean Piaget

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind…

— John Finley

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The…

— Rudolf Steiner

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

— John W. Gardner

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

— Jacques Barzun