Top 100 Education Purpose Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Education Purpose

#1. Our head is designed to devote ourselves to self- education

#2. Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan

#3. What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#4. If you can understand the purpose of a small tree, you will be able to understand yourself and become free.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Find a great purpose of life and be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sydney J. Harris

#7. The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Stanley Fish

#8. The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.

Robert L. Payton

#9. You must dare greatly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can't Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We're Missing. We're Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main Purpose of Life, To Know Ourselves ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#11. Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

John Adams

#12. Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

Michael Gove

#15. The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

Dana Gioia

#16. Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#17. The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.

Allan Bloom

#18. Success is a way of life that has meaning and purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

Satish Kumar

#20. The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Croly

#21. The purpose of education should be character-building.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Peter McWilliams

#23. What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker's cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz's moral purpose (building an integrated self).

David Brooks

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

Harold Rosenberg

#25. The purpose of life is not success, but happiness is.

Debasish Mridha

#26. A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. In three words I can sum up the purpose of life: living, loving, and giving.

Debasish Mridha

#28. The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

Igor Babailov

#29. Your purpose of life is not to find a job, but to find what you love and do it with all your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#30. The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise ... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

#32. We humans can never learn everything. The purpose of human life is not to learn everything. Rather it is to learn from every single walk of life and put that knowledge into practice in the pursuit of making human life a little better.

Abhijit Naskar

#33. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#34. Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.

Charlie Crist

#35. Most people thing that the purpose of education is to acquire a degree, a qualification. So what is this degree of B.A.? B.A.+D (D stands for degree) becomes BAD, and if you are more qualified you are M.A.+D = MAD!

Sai Baba

#36. A life without purpose is like a journey without destination.

Debasish Mridha

#37. The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#38. The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

Kurt Hahn

#39. Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney Harris

#40. Dream for life; dream for love; dream for a better world. The purpose of life should not be only to achieve silver and gold.

Debasish Mridha

#41. I'm clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.

Tucker Elliot

#42. Your life has many purposes, many goals, but the ultimate purpose of life is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#43. 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.

John Mason Brown

#44. The purpose of life is to be happy and then spread the fragrance of happiness to enhance the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#45. You are put on this earth to fulfill your purpose and that is to love, live, serve, share, care, and be happy on the way of life.

Debasish Mridha

#46. The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

#47. The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#48. Why don't you dare the impossible?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#50. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Mary Shelley

#51. Think of giving not as a privilege of having abundance in life, but as a purpose and gratitude of life.

Debasish Mridha

#52. The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.

Brandon Mull

#53. What is the purpose of life?
To be loving, kind, caring, useful, and of course, to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#54. To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Debasish Mridha

#55. If you have a definite purpose, if you have a driving desire to achieve it and if you go with passion, then don't wait for success because you are already a success.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#57. The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

Bertrand Russell

#58. To love is the never ending purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#59. Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. A life with a worthy purpose is worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Make peace your purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#62. When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

Debasish Mridha

#63. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Mollie Marti

#64. The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Plato

#65. Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Rudolf Steiner

#66. You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education.

Deepak Burfiwala

#67. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.

Debasish Mridha

#68. For success, have a laser-like, purpose-oriented focus, and persistently go toward it.

Debasish Mridha

#69. It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

Narendra Modi

#70. The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Leo Tolstoy

#71. Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#72. Make plans for your new goals. And press towards achieving the goals with all your strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.

Boyd K. Packer

#75. A successful life is decorated with a flower called purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#76. All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream

Michael Ende

#77. The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James A. Baldwin

#78. Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

Adam Fletcher

#79. You character and action will reveal your purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#80. For success, purpose is more important than process.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#82. The most important thing to achieve success in life is to know the purpose of life and go for it with boldness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#84. [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

Paul Lockhart

#85. I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Gordon Gee

#86. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Life is a journey with purpose and passion.

Debasish Mridha

#88. Purpose is the place where happiness resides.

Debasish Mridha

#89. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

#90. The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Make inner peace your final destination. Make happiness your life's purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#92. It does not matter
where you are born,
but what matters is the purpose
Of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#93. Love is my love, power, strength, wealth, and purpose.

Debasish Mridha

#94. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#95. To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Marcus Aurelius