It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
Interpretation
Education serves both practical and cultural purposes in life and society.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the dual role of education as both a tool for personal and societal utility and as a means of cultivating culture and character. He argues that education should not only equip individuals with the skills necessary to achieve their goals efficiently but also enrich their understanding of the world, contributing to the overall betterment of society.
In practice
This quote can be used in an educational seminar to highlight the importance of both practical skills and cultural understanding.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
A child needs freedom within limits.
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
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