Havelock Ellis Quotes

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.