Tujuan-Tujuan Pendidikan (Objectives of Education)

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Philipp Frank. (1947). Einstein: His Life and Times. Canada: Ryerson Press. Halaman 185.

1. Bagian 1 Philipp Frank. (1947). Einstein: His Life and Times. Canada: Ryerson Press. Halaman 185. "What is the speed of sound?" He (Einstein) said: "I don't know. I don't burden my memory with such facts that I can easily find in any textbook. It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books.

2. Bagian 2 Margaret Mead. (1973). Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Halaman 246.

3. Bagian 3 Duckworth, E. (1964). Piaget Rediscovered. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Vol. 2, Halaman 175. The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done--Men who are creators, inventors, and discoverers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and do not accept everything they are offered. Tujuan utama pendidikan adalah untuk membentuk manusia yang dapat melakukan hal baru, tidak sesederhana mengulang apa yang telah dilakukan oleh generasi sebelumnya, yaitu para pencipta dan penemu. Tujuan pendidikan selanjutnya adalah membentuk pikiran menjadi kritis, dapat memverifikasi, dan tidak menerima semua yang telah diajarkan mentah-mentah.

4. Bagian 4 Prophet of Progress: Selections from the Speeches of Charles F. Kettering. (1961). New York: E. P. Dutton. Halaman 23. “There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.”