Quotes About Meaning Of Education

#1. Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Intelligence plus character is the true meaning of education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

Gregory S. Prince Jr.

#5. I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Edward Norton

#6. You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Satish Kumar

#7. If we don't understand the meaning of life, how can we understand the afterlife?

Debasish Mridha

#8. In three word I can explain the meaning of life: love is life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

#10. Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

David Christian

#13. Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

John Dewey

#14. the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee.

Minae Mizumura

#15. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Antisthenes

#16. Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

John Dewey

#18. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

Solomon Asch

#19. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Ken Robinson

#20. If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite

Michael Levy

#22. We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

Carlina Rinaldi

#23. 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

#24. The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

George Sampson

#25. Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Mark Twain

#26. In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends ... It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise in how something should be done, afraid or incapable of thinking about why.

Neil Postman

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

Debasish Mridha

#28. When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Mark Steyn

#29. When you are in love, you have to be ready to suffer and find out the meaning of love.

Debasish Mridha

#30. 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

#31. Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#32. Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.

Paulo Freire

#33. Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Pope John Paul II