Purpose of Education

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 • “Education is preparation to live completely. ” – Herbert Spencer • “A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. ” – John Milton • “Education seeks, by social stimulus, guidance, and control, to develop the natural powers of the child, so as to render him able and disposed to lead a healthy, happy, and morally worthy life. – Sully • “Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help. ” – W. T. Harris • “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ” – Malcolm Forbes • “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. ” – T. S. Eliot • “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G. K. Chesterton • “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ” – George Washington Carver • “Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart. ” – Jules Simon • “A complete education ought to preserve the pupil’s bodily health and strength, and give him command over his mental and muscular powers, increase his quickness and sharpness of perception, form in him the habit of prompt and accurate judgment, lead to delicacy and depth in every right feeling, and make him inflexible in his conscientious and steadfast devotion to all his duties. – Thomas Hill • “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ” – Robert Frost • “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ” – Robert M. Hutchins • “Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ” – Robert M.

Hutchins • “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. ” – Martin Luther King, Jr. • “We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. ” – Martin Luther King, Jr. • “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann • “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. ” – Anatole France • “He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ” – Victor Hugo • “The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ” – Alvin Toffler • “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle