Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Interpretation
True education aims to develop both intelligence and moral character.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that education should not solely focus on intellectual growth, but also on the development of character and ethical values. He advocates for a holistic approach to education where students learn to think critically while also understanding the importance of integrity, compassion, and social responsibility.
In practice
During a graduation speech to highlight the importance of character in education.
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.
I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
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