"Education must enable one to sift and..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
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.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
“We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”
“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”
More on Education
“The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.”
“Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.”
“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”
More on Critical Thinking
“It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
“There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.”
“Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.”