As quoted in The Sociology of Rock (1978) by Simon Frith
Context: Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!
“One of the functions of entertainment, I think, is education.”
Roy E. Disney (1930–2009) longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company
Roy Edward Disney (2003) as quoted in Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (2012) by Newton Lee and Krystina Madej, p. 2
“People will pay more to be entertained than educated.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle book Metaphysics
Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: Metaphysics
“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Chapter 32 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch32.htm, originally published in Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art (May 1942), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 84. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Context: The basic purpose of life and the basic purpose of education is to enhance one’s boundaries of perception. I don’t want the children to just survive after ten years of schooling here. They must blossom and flower wherever they go. -Sadhguru (on Isha Vidhya rural education project)
“The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it”
Lawrence M. Krauss (1954) American physicist
