"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values." (William R Inge)
"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it." (John Locke)
"The chief object of education is not to learn but to unlearn." (G K Chesterton)
"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 L King, Jr.)
"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things." (Jean Piaget)
"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." (John F Kennedy)
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer)
"The most important outcome of education is to help students to become independent of formal education." (Paul E Gray)
"The object of education is not only to produce a man who knows, but one who does; who makes his mark in the straggle of life and succeeds well in whatever he undertakes: who can solve the problems of nature and of humanity as they arise, and who, when he knows he is right, can boldly convince the world of the fact." (Henry A Rowland)
"The object of education is to give man the unity of truth." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." (Robert M Hutchins)
"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful." (Plato, "The Republic")
"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers." (Jean Piaget)
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." (Sydney J Harris)
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