Random Thoughts On Education

Purpose of Education

"The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort." ~ Ayn Rand

"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. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~ Malcolm Forbes

Goal of Education

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." ~ George Washington Carver

"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.

"Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom." ~ Harry S. Truman

Goal of Education

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." ~ Margaret Mead

"Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

"The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth." ~ George Washington

"The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail." ~ Samuel Adams

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain STUPID!" ~Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~ Bertrand Russell

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." ~ James A. Garfield

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." ~ Edward Everett

"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth" ~ Desiderius Erasmus

"Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you." ~ Richard Dawkins

Concerns About Education

"School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." ~ John F. Kennedy

If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~ C. S. Lewis

I’d say we have some things that need to be fixed.

Know God, know moral education. No God, no moral education.