“Education is meant to make us appreciate the things that are beautiful in nature.”
- Source
- Character Building
- Date
- 1902
Meaning of “Education is meant to make us appreciate the…”
Learning should enlarge perception as well as employability, helping a person notice value and beauty that might otherwise pass without attention.
Where does it come from?
Character Building, “The Highest Education,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington places appreciation of beauty in nature alongside truth, justice, generosity and service as outcomes of education; this sentence belongs to the later address identified here rather than the earlier education address.