Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Education has for its object the formation of character.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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.

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

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl’s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

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

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

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

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

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

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

My life is my message.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

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

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

The unexamined life is not worth living.