The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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