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I.  Warm-up Questions

Directions: discuss and answer the following questions.

1.        What is your idea of an ideal university life?

 2.        How does education improve your life?

3.        Can you feel the impact of modern technology on teaching and learning in your university?

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II.  Quotes

Directions:   Study the following quotes about education. Which quote(s) do you like best? Why? 

1.    Education’s purpose isto replace an empty mind with an open one.

                               —  Malcolm Forbes

2.    The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.  

                             — Robert Maynard Hutchins

3.    There are two types of education…One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.

                            — John Adams

4.    We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.              

                          — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Interpretation:

1.    The purpose of education is to enable people to acquire knowledge and broaden their minds.

2.    The goal of education is to equip young people with the ability to pursue knowledge and tap their potential throughout their lives.

3.    There are two types of education: one is aimed at teaching people skills to make a living; the other is aimed at teaching values and how to live one’s life fully.

4.    Education plays an important role in our lives. It provides us with wisdom and knowledge and helps us grow to maturity. Education makes us strong and wise. It is education that makes us what we are.