Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

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.

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

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

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

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

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

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

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.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.