Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have a lot more significance to me.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.