"The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas.not to prepare them for a specific job."
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- The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world.
This kind of environment is ideal because it allows... - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Too much emphasis is placed on the development of... - College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects
that interest them rather than seek programs that promise... - 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... - College and university education should be free for all students,
fully financed by the government... - Instead of requiring students to take courses in a variety of disciplines.that is,
courses ranging from the arts and the humanities to... - Education should be equally devoted to enriching the
personal lives of students and to training students... - The following appeared in the editorial section of an educational publication.
"One study at Lee University found that first-semester... - The following appeared in a memo from a member of the Clark City School Board.
"Mason Elementary School is faced with a shortage of...
