To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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.
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