Educational Objectives Quotes

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.

I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

I think it's fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.