Adults Quote by Simone Weil

Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other…

— Bertrand Russell

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 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

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education…

— John Dewey

Education has for its object the formation of character.

— Herbert Spencer

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson

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

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

— Ivan Sutherland

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 guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of…

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Robert M. Hutchins