To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Roosevelt warns that educating minds without morals creates dangerous individuals harmful to society.
- In plain terms
- Intelligence without morals is dangerous.
- What can you take from it?
- Intelligence without morals is dangerous.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can knowledge exist without morals?
- How to teach ethics?
Another view
Some moral learning can occur outside formal education.
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