Aim Quote by Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the…

— Herbert Spencer

The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop…

— David O. McKay

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

— W. Edwards Deming

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

— Maria Montessori

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

— Erich Fromm

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral,…

— Sri Aurobindo

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover,…

— Jean Piaget

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust…

— E. M. Forster