The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I want to see kids go to college more.
The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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.
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].
What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . .
I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.
I definitely would like to go to university.
Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
I really wanted to go to college.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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.
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?
