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To continue exploring further Paidea principles, we present the perspective on education by
famous thinkers and philosophers representing another source of inspiration for our project
work.
“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.”
~Jean Piaget, Swiss philosopher
“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, pastor and humanitarian
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
~Albert Einstein, physicist
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
~Sydney J. Harris, journalist
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~Malcolm Forbes, publisher and politician
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts but of values.”
~William S. Burroughs, novelist