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Yesterday, I stumbled upon it via an article in the Washington Post. King wrote in the February edition of the Maroon Tiger, the Morehouse College student newspaper. It speaks for itself:. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end.
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda.
At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education.
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. The elements of intelligence and character correspond to the two fundamental parts of a person, his intellect and his will. If an education is to be true and comprehensive, it must not place all of its focus onto one or the other of these elements. When intelligence becomes the sole focus, education will lose its meaning.
It will become rather a mechanical factory for producing sharpened mental faculties, but dulled souls. Intelligence has to do with the purpose of man to discover and learn from his world, and while this is an extremely valuable part of existence, it does not include the more human element, character. Character, or the formation of a will, has to do with the purpose of a man, which is to be developed and turned towards the good.
Though this aspiration may be less obvious and less respected than intelligence, it is nonetheless of equal importance. Its development must, however, be incorporated with the development of intelligence. If these two pillars are not developed side by side, the person cannot grow with the balance that is necessary to his development. Education should be integrated with real life; it should explain to the student not only how to learn, but how to live.
The role of education in this process of growth is irreplaceable. Because its sole focus is forming the person and preparing him for life, it is only right that education should be expected to form all parts of the man.
Though the educator cannot be expected to be responsible for the full development of character, he should provide a stable base and example for the student.
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