Top 1200 Aim Of Education Quotes & Sayings

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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 problem.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.