Quotes About Purpose Of Education

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Bertrand Russell

#3. 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

#4. The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Abhijit Naskar

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Michael Gove

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

#14. 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

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

Kurt Hahn

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

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

#19. 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

#20. The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Anne Sullivan

#21. The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers.

Debasish Mridha

#22. The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Alfred North Whitehead

#24. The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

Thomas Jefferson

#25. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.

Robert M. Hutchins

#26. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

Gloria Estefan

#27. I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.

Ilchi Lee

#28. Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

Muriel Barbery

#29. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James Rowland Angell

#30. The purpose of education is turn inquisitive young minds into rule-followers

U.S. Dept. Of Fear

#31. The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#32. The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

Anthony Burgess

#33. The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

Norman Cousins

#34. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

David W. Orr

#35. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Deepak Burfiwala

#41. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Mollie Marti

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

Debasish Mridha

#45. Make peace your purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Debasish Mridha

#48. 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

#49. Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

Debasish Mridha

#50. If everyone's purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Let us love and let it be the purpose of our life.

Debasish Mridha

#52. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Debasish Mridha

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#58. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#60. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#62. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Stanley Fish

#68. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Debasish Mridha

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Debasish Mridha

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

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

Igor Babailov

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

Debasish Mridha

#86. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#87. The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.
It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.

Debasish Mridha

#88. When you feel the love of the universe you achieve the purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#89. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

#90. Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#91. 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

#92. I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Joseph Lancaster

#93. The main purpose of life is to love, is to care, is to share, is to serve, and is to grow passion for compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#94. Find the will power and begin to chase your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Mortimer Adler

#96. The prime purpose of our life is to love and appreciate all the beauty in and around us and feel the joy of love.

Debasish Mridha

#97. The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

Joseph Sobran

#98. When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise

Theresa Sjoquist

#99. To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.

John Lancaster Spalding

#100. My purpose of life is sweet indeed.
I like to help people when in need.
I am longing for happiness.
I am expressing my kindness.
I am expressing my love every day.
I am compassionate all the way.

Debasish Mridha