Claims Quote by Harold Rosenberg

The purpose of education is to enlighten the student as to how to use their own mind, rather than to fill it with facts…

— Anonymous

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true…

— Ann Bridge

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

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with…

— Ayn Rand

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

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

— Norman Cousins

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 give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they…

— Plato

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

— Peter McWilliams

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

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

— Michael Sandel

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott