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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -- Sydney J. Harris
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
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
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. -- Chris Hedges
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. -- Bertrand Russell
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience. -- Leo Tolstoy
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us -- Norman Cousins
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
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
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
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
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
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 J. Harris
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
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
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
[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
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
The prime purpose of education is to enhance the ability to think better. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers. -- Debasish Mridha
The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The purpose of education is to create a purpose for life. Go for it with the utmost sincerity. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people. -- Peter McWilliams
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. -- James Rowland Angell
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) -- Kurt Hahn
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
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
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
The main purpose of education isn't just to receive a certification that leads to a career, but to become a well-rounded person in so many aspects of life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
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 J. Harris
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education. -- Muriel Barbery
The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as "human capital" or "assets." One seldom sees any reference in their literature or public declarations to the importance of developing full persons to assume the responsibilities of citizenship. -- Diane Ravitch
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. -- Michael N. Nagler
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. -- George Will
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
Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. -- Roger Ebert
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
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
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
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
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
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
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. -- Joseph Lancaster
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
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
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do. -- Guy Davenport
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. -- Frans de Waal
The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values, -- James O. Freedman
The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw. -- Igor Babailov
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes
Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn? -- Bauvard
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. -- John Lancaster Spalding
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. -- Marva Collins
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. -- Stanley Fish
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream. -- Gordon Gee
Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else. -- Lyman Bryson
Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty and purpose of life. -- Debasish Mridha
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. -- David Livingstone
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. -- David O. McKay
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
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
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
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
...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. -- John Henrik Clarke
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
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

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