Top 100 Quotes About The Purpose Of Education
#1. The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
Bertrand Russell
#2. 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
#3. The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.
Peter McWilliams
#7. The purpose of education should be character-building.
Abhijit Naskar
#8. The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)
Kurt Hahn
#9. 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
#10. The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
Lawrence M. Krauss
#11. 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
#12. The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. [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
#17. The purpose of education is turn inquisitive young minds into rule-followers
U.S. Dept. Of Fear
#18. 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
#19. The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Norman Cousins
#20. 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
#21. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. 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
#23. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#24. 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
#25. The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. 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
#27. You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education.
Deepak Burfiwala
#28. 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
#29. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#30. When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.
Debasish Mridha
#32. What is the purpose of life?
To be loving, kind, caring, useful, and of course, to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#33. 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
#34. Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.
Debasish Mridha
#36. 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
#37. It does not matter
where you are born,
but what matters is the purpose
Of your life.
Debasish Mridha
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#47. Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Stanley Fish
#51. 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
#52. If you can understand the purpose of a small tree, you will be able to understand yourself and become free.
Debasish Mridha
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
Michael Gove
#56. The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. The purpose of life is to be happy and then spread the fragrance of happiness to enhance the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#60. 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
#61. Your life has many purposes, many goals, but the ultimate purpose of life is to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.
Igor Babailov
#69. In three words I can sum up the purpose of life: living, loving, and giving.
Debasish Mridha
#70. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#71. The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.
It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.
Debasish Mridha
#72. When you feel the love of the universe you achieve the purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Success is not the ultimate purpose of life but happiness is.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.
Debasish Mridha
#88. The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.
Debasish Mridha
#90. The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.
Ayn Rand
#92. The greatest purpose of life is to serve the suffering humanity with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
Barbara M. White
#94. The purpose of life is to be happy by being useful to others. Always have the inborn sense of wonder and enjoy the wonderful universe every moment with great love and great affection.
Debasish Mridha
#95. The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
Stephen R. Covey
#96. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
#97. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
#98. The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best
A.S. Neill
#99. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life
Sunday Adelaja
#100. We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.
Debasish Mridha
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