Education Purpose Quotes

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

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

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

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

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Education in France is used to inculcate the values of the state.

I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.