Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

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

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

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

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

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.

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

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

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.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.