Education is the movement from darkness to light.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
Education is our passport to the future.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
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.
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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