Quote by Sargent Shriver

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, th

Summary

This quote suggests that the purpose of education should be to instill a desire for the best things in life. The speaker implies that if education does not cultivate ambition and aspiration for improvement, then society becomes stagnant and undemocratic, resembling a fixed caste system. In other words, education should inspire individuals to strive for excellence and break down barriers, promoting equality and progress in society.

Topics

Education

By Sargent Shriver

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Thankful

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Food

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, beca

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axi

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Custom

One more thing...

One more thing...

Inspiration

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man wh

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

John D. Rockefeller

Money

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my pe

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, A World S

Socialism

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of th

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Generations

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Beauty

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Faith

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success b

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Success

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Dreams Motivation