Today, UNMC Today caps its six-part series of Martin Luther King Jr. photos and quotations with the civil rights leader outlining the goals of education.
In commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren and his sister, Brenda Council will make a joint presentation today at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center. The free program is from noon to 1 p.m. in the Storz Pavilion. Free lunch refreshments will be served for the first 250 people in attendance.
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Martin Luther King with school children in Birmingham, Ala. |
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 weight evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason but with no morals. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.”
Taken from “The Words of Martin Luther King Jr.” Selected by Coretta Scott King. Newmarket Press, New York, 1987.