Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

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

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

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

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

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

True beauty lies in true education.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe that anymore, not coincidentally two years after writing Eileen. I think that was the driving curiosity for me, thinking about real and fictional characters who could respond to that problem.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.