Education

1. Definition:
1. 1828: The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.
1. Instruction (direction)
2. Discipline (teaching)
3. Enlighten (illuminate)
1. Education is not just the acquiring of facts, but the direction taught by an increased understanding to the world around. It is the parents role to educate, in both temporal and spiritual matters.
2. Quotes:
1. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” (Carl Rogers)
1. Education is learning how to learn and change your environment. Everything else therein is secondary.
2. "Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish the desired end. Character is not the result of chance work but of continuous right thinking and right acting. True education seeks, then, to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, combined with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love-men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and self-control as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life.” (David O. McKay)
1. Education is not to make a man ready for society, but to make a good man. In the process he will acquire many other things, but the goal should be character.
3. Scriptures:
1. “And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118)
1. Education is also to be shared. Teach others from books of wisdom.
4. Personal Definition:

Education is something to make someone a better person. It allows you to change your place in life. We must share it with others for it to be a true education.