Common Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,…

— John Ruskin

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

— Peter McWilliams

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that…

— Michael N. Nagler

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

— James A. Baldwin

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our worldand leave them to…

— Anonymous

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the…

— Adam Smith

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The true purpose of education is to teach you to do the thing that needs to be done,when it needs to be done, whether…

— Thomas Huxley

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

— Desmond Tutu

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

— Horace Mann