Article June 23, 1945 Issue

Signs of the Times

The Goal of Education

with contributions from B. Edwin Butchinson, H. J. Armitage, David B. Pearson, Gray Montgomery, William E. Gilroy, Charles B. Hahn

B. Edwin Butchinson
The Technology Review
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The end objective of education is the making of men and women, in the highest sense of those words. Education is the inspiration and guidance of childhood through youth to a rounded maturity of adulthood. For education to be truly successful, its end product must be men and women who have developed character at the same time that they have acquired knowledge....

The education of a man is a human awakening. The prime goal of education should be the eventual attainment by each individual of an inner spiritual freedom, the liberation of the individual from the bonds of ignorance and prejudice through the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom.

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