A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll
American - Lawyer
August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.

William Godwin

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

Lewis Thomas

[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

Ingrid Newkirk

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

Rod Paige

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Johannes Rau

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Brigham Young

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Tryon Edwards

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

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

Oswald Chambers

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.