Educational Goal Quotes

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

I want to go to college.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

I just never in my life imagined not graduating college, so I feel like it's kind of my obligation to my parents, almost, to give them a degree in return for everything they've given me.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

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

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.