The Purpose Of Education: Schools Should Help Us Become Better Citizens

Schools should help us become better citizens by letting us to become a better person that will have a good personality, good judgement and have good character. Martin Luther was a great man with great ideas that inspired the world to not judge, make everyone equal and have the same chances in life.“Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility to the legitimate goals of his life; intelligence is not enough, intelligence plus character this is the real goal of education.” Martin Luther: The Purpose of Education. This quote proves my thesis that education needs to help us become a good citizen.Intelligence plus character creates good citizens by making them aware of their surroundings and for the citizen to make good decisions in …show more content…
“It seems to me that education has a twofold 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.” Another quote by martin luther stating the same thing that education has more than one purpose and that's to provide you with intellectual education and cultural education.Even though his quotes were very inspiring in school we still don't learn enough about ourselves and get called names that we live with the rest of our lives.I actually think that Martin Luther King Jr. was a very inspiring man that shaped the way the United States is shaped today A counterclaim to my argument is that school isn't all day, and school shapes us into who we become in life. I agree with this counterclaim, but school is most of all day and the time we aren't at school we are doing homework or being stressed about what we have to do the next