Home / Topics / Function Quotes

Function Quotes

Browse 2701 quotes about Function.

Function Quotes

“I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.”

Important Support Issues Fine Function Educational Admire

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

Facts Helping School Education Emotional Intellectual Function Bounds Intelligence Educational Limitation Our Time Great Education Great Educational Inspirational Education Inspirational Educational Value Of Education

Author:T. S. Eliot

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

Helping Motivational Education Attitude Childhood Function Educational Being Yourself Literacy Education And Literacy

Book:Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”

Knows Men Two School Religious Half Knowledge College Function Bottom Profit Educational Valuable Buying Rotten Theological Baskets Strawberries

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.”

Important Individual Levels Education Personality Function Educational Significance Great Education Great Educational Education Is Important

Author:Grayson L. Kirk

“What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.”

Facts Democracy Needed Function Educational

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”

Body Strong Health Healthy Skills Capacity Function Educational Physical Fitness Physical Education

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.”

Philosophy Literature Function Excellence Educational Related

Author:Aristotle

“The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”

People Thinking Way Ends Philosophy School Literature Education Knowing Function Educational Organs Sole Outstanding

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.”