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.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.
Good writing is lean and confident.
I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.” An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: “As you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
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