"It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit. In reality, however, formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free."
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- The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system,
a standard, a set of ideas.not to prepare them for... - What does education often do?
It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau (1817... - What does education often do?
It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Henry David... - 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... - Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S.... - The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind
with an open one Malcom... - College and university education should be free for all students,
fully financed by the government... - A formal education can sometimes be broadening but more often merely flattens.
Edward... - Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that
every subject,
every topic, every fact, every professed truth must...
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- Encouraging young people to believe that they can accomplish
great things if they try hard enough is both misleading... - We learn through direct experience;
to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn... - For better or worse, education is a process that involves revising the ideas,
beliefs, and values people held in the past... - Now that computer technology has made possible the rapid accessing of large amounts of factual information,
people are less likely than ever to think deeply or... - Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive,
because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural...
