THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION By Martin L. King Jr. ... It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is ___1__ and the other is ___2___. Education must enable a man to become more ___3____, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life. Education must also train one for quick, resolute and ___4____ thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is ____5___ its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people does not think ___6____ and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of ____7______, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and ___8___ evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think _____9____ and to think ___10____. 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.