James Beattie: The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to…
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
In today’s wordsThe aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think: to improve our minds so we can think for ourselves, rather than loading memory with other people's thoughts.
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