18 November 2017

Out of Context: The Aim of Education

"Education's goal should be to develop a love of learning that stays with students throughout their lives. Education should be a lifetime experience, not limited to youth." (Bob Web)

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." (Malcolm S Forbes)

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values." (William R Inge)

"The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." (Albert Einstein)

"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain not a reservoir." (John Mason)

"The chief object of education is not to learn but to unlearn."  (G K Chesterton)

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." (Martin L King, Jr.)

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things." (Jean Piaget)

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." (John F Kennedy)

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer)

"The object of education is to give man the unity of truth." (Rabindranath Tagore)

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful." (Plato, “The Republic”)

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." (Robert M Hutchins)

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” (Jean Piaget)

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." (Sydney J Harris)

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