“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.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the main idea or meaning of the above quote by the American civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King, Jr.?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
Do you feel that your own educational experiences have been an exercise in true education? Why, or why not?
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” (Aristotle)
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” (Confucius)
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” (Jean Piaget)
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