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— Elliot W. Eisner"The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves."
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The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.
— Jacques Maritain
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
— H. L. Mencken
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