True Education - MLK
This quote comes from Martin Luther King Jr. in an article titled "The Purpose of Education" in the February 1947 edition of the Morehouse College student newspaper, the Maroon Tiger. In the article, King argues that education has both a utilitarian and a moral function. He asserts that reasoning ability is not enough and insists that character and moral development are necessary to give the critical intellect humane purposes.
King believed that education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. He also believed that education, which stops with efficiency, may prove the greatest menace to society. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.