Responses to Famous Quotes about Education (Sept. 8)

Original Quote:

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. --Jiddu Krishnamurti

Responses:

I agree with the idea brought up in the quotation that the purpose of education isnot solely to further your understanding of key concepts; but to enable oneself to learn how to be independent as well. School forces students, especially during teenage years, to learn the skills that will be needed post graduation in order to live alone and care for yourself.

I think the quote means education is created for you to grow your imagination and personality instead of others' judgement. I agree with this statement because I feel as though if I didn't work on growing my knowledge in most cases I wouldn't be capable of making righteous decisions. An example of how education is important can be seen in mathematics. I would not be capable of calculating simple things (e.g. addition) and therefore be relying on others.

I think one learns about themself through education. Each student has their own particular way to study which makes them unique. As each person studies differently, whether it is memorizing the information or writing it over and over again, each style is different. I agree with this quote because educations involves studying and through this process one can and will obtain great knowledge about the material but also more importantly about themself.

This quote means that the purpose of education is to obtain skills not so that in the future, one copies a person who has succeeded , but rather that one reallizes his/her potential. In doing so, one can think of original ideas that reflects his/her personality. Education's purpose is to shape a person by giving the tools he/she needs and not to force them into imitation.

To say that the function of education is to be yourself is false. The function of education is to give you the tools you need to survive. Self-pursuit is merely a bonus for going through the process of an education. So although learning to be yourself is a byproduct of education, it is not its function.


A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. --Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain, University of Chicago

I agree with this fully. The goal of education should not be to make a student feel as though if he or she does not succeed at something that his or her education should be deemed pointless. Education should make a student understand that sometimes in life they will have to deal with misfortunes and that they're completely mormal. If people were on one-track minds of success, once a failure occurs they would not be able to cope. Education has the soul purpose fo teaching and enhancing the minds of students. In no way should students fear failure. In fact, they should embrace them as new learning experiences.

Life is a journey, a task given by God as a test for the souls on Earth. Bernard is trying to tell the world to remember that life is a struggles and there are obstacles in our journey. Just like a test, the idea is to overcome these obstacles, which are the questions in a test. If you answer correctly, you succeed, and that makes you move on to the next question, a harder one than the first. If you fail, you must be able to move on, remembering that life is a struggle. Just as they say, the richest man is not always the happiest.

I disagree with this quoe because a good education should not be determined by the success or failure of an individual, but by the way in which he acts and conducts himself. This should be made up by three things: knowledge, respect, and honour.