Chiefs Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character is the main object of education.”

— Mary Wooley

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

— Maria Mitchell

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

— Sherwood Anderson

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions…

— Annie Besant

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public…

— Thomas Jefferson

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in…

— Henry Ford