What does this quote mean?

Question

The highest result of education is tolerance.
By helen keller

Answer 1

You learn to accept others by understanding them

Answer 2

Hmm, personally I would think it to mean that the greatest thing that we (anyone, I guess) can teach is tolerance. Tolerance being "a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry."

Racism and other such hatred is born from ignorance and lack of said tolerance. To teach tolerance would help rid the world of such a terrible philosophy many people cannot seem to rise above.

I could also see someone saying the quote means tolerance is the hardest idea to to teach. The quote implies it is the highest form of education, we might assume that means it is the hardest concept to grasp. Does this mean only the smartest people are tolerant of others? It's a real thinker, isn't it?

Answer 3

The more education you receive the more you realize how much you really don't know.
Tolerance is the acknowledgement that you are NOT the center of the universe, that you are NOT the only 'acceptable model', that you are as infallable as anyone else, but in different ways. Education is a great leveler. This is what we call tolerance.

Answer 4

There are two main facets to this. Firstly, being educated in a scholastic sense means you know more and by learning more about the world around you, you are more willing to accept the possibility of new ideas. With this increased tendency to accept possibilities comes the tolerance to accept the ideas of others. In a societal sense, being educated means trying ones best to be a gentleman or a lady. A gentleman or a lady is not a definition of a snobby upper class person. In it's simplest form, a gentleman or a lady is someone who tries to make the people around them as comfortable as possible. To be educated in this sense, it requires one to be aware of other people's feelings and hence to tolerate the needs of others.

Answer 5

It means the best thing to come out of people being educated is the fact that these people become more tolerant of the differences of others. Less fear, misunderstanding and hate basically.

Answer 6

I think it means that education will result in someone realizing everyone else's differences and be able to tolerate it. Basically, it's saying that being educated will make you less ignorant.

Answer 7

It means that becoming educated exposes you to ideas/beliefs that are different from your own. That exposure is likely to make you see those differences as just...different...and not bad. In other words, it will make you more tolerant. You won't necessarily change your beliefs but you might gain tolerance.

Answer 8

Sounds like you have to spend so much time putting up with teachers, that really the key thing you learn in school is tolerance.

Answer 9

learn the lessons of Jesus. Judge not the sinners.

None of us are better than others. We are all sinners. Like when Jesus was brought an adualterous women who was about to stoned (to death). They asked Jesus what he thought.
After drawing in the sand he said, "Let the one without sin cast the first stone". They left one by one, untill they were all gone. Jesus told her she was forgiven, but sin no more.

We must all love thy neighbor as thyself. A HARD THING TO DO, but we can. We have been given the gift, but most of us have to find it.

Answer 10

I think it means that out of education the most valuable thing you get out of it is tolerance, but thats just breaking it up and making sense out of it.