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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, Giving

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Carpenter, Objects

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.222, Oxford University Press

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• True beauty lies in true education.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Lying, True Beauty

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• Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Goal, Achieve

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• The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Criminals

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Heart, Cultivation

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• True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Kind, Never Ending Story

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• Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

  John Henrik Clarke

  Self, Students, Form

  John Henrik Clarke (1994). “Who betrayed the African world revolution? and other speeches”, Third World Pr

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• Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Miracle, Faces, Goodness

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Parent, Helping, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Boys, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.24, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Humility, Sacrifice

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• True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

  David O. McKay

  Education, Eye, Soul

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• Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Educational, Principles, Use

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• Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Noble, Development

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Groups, Body

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Educational, Healthy, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

  Anuj

  Heart, Presence Of Mind, Essence

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Intelligent, Ears

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.38, Cooper Square Press

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• True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

  Felix Schelling

  Education, Individuality, Genius

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• When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, School, Years

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.

  John Cowper Powys

  Art, Psychology, Literature

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 175, 1936.

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• 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. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Character, College

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Meaningful, Art, Creativity

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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