Top 36 Object Of Education Quotes
#2. The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
Plato
#3. The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.
Hermann Adler
#4. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#5. The whole object of education is ... to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
Sherwood Anderson
#6. For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
#8. What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
Annie Besant
#9. For the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Plato
#10. The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
Henry Ford
#11. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.
Henry Adams
#13. Beauty is the reflection of a loving heart, not the quality of an object or subject.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
Simone Weil
#15. Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition
John Dewey
#16. 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
#17. The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
John Ruskin
#18. Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.
Charles A. Beard
#19. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...
Charlotte M. Mason
#20. The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#21. The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#23. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George Washington
#24. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
Sarah Fielding
#27. The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric, in the large sense in which that art was conceived by the ancients; or of the still more extensive art of Education.
John Stuart Mill
#28. One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#29. A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
George Washington
#30. If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
Immanuel Kant
#31. 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
#32. All education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.
Catharine Beecher
#34. Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
#35. The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Harriet Martineau
#36. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous, - that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.
Victor Hugo
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