Top 56 Education Aim Quotes
#2. The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#3. I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie Besant
#5. Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
C.S. Lewis
#6. In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.
Elliot W. Eisner
#7. Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.
Francis Wayland Parker
#9. The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.
Maria Montessori
#10. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
Maria Montessori
#11. The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
George Santayana
#12. Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education.
A.W. Tozer
#13. Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
David O. McKay
#14. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
#15. Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
Condoleezza Rice
#16. The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#17. 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.
Maria Montessori
#20. Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
Ralph Fiennes
#21. Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
Aristotle.
#24. The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#25. The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
Paul Goodman
#26. The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
John Dewey
#27. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
#28. The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
H.L. Mencken
#29. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
#31. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
Maria Montessori
#32. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
Frances Harper
#33. It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. 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.
Pearl S. Buck
#35. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. 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.
H.L. Mencken
#37. The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
John Lancaster Spalding
#38. The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
Herbert Spencer
#41. the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.
Dale Carnegie
#43. The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.
Bruce Lee
#44. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
#45. 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 doctor's surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they have something interesting to think about.
John Mortimer
#46. The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
Gilbert Highet
#47. Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
Richard Mitchell
#48. It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
Winthrop W. Aldrich
#49. 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.
Aristotle.
#50. Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
Khem Veasna
#52. The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
#53. 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.
Elliot W. Eisner
#54. Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
John Lancaster Spalding
#55. 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.
Albert Einstein
#56. The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
W. Edwards Deming
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