Top 1200 Purpose Of Education Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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.

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

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

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

People often confuse "goal&quot and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.

Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to provide an education. It's not to teach students how to get better work, but how to provide banks with a free giveaway opportunity from the government, by making junk loans that are defaulted on. The effect may be to wreck the futures of the graduates that fall for the false promises that are being made.

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

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

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

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

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

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

In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

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.

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

Every little thing has a purpose, at the same time, it has no purpose because this whole thing is a game. It is the existence which is total, beyond purpose. So you can say, virtually there is no purpose. If at all you have to pin down to a purpose then the purpose of nature is to take you to the Source, is to remind you of the Source, connect you to your Source.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

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

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

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.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

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

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

The whole purpose of my education ultimately was so I could deliver a statement eloquently before my execution.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

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

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

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.

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.

I chose to support Purpose Prep because it is important for every child to have the opportunity to receive a great education, and the Purpose Prep programs are designed for underprivileged children in my hometown to have access to those services.

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

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

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

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

Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.

Basketball as a sport has brought me happiness, joy, education and a real sense of purpose.

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.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

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.

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.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.