The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
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