About this quote

Education that develops only technical competence can produce efficient performance without judgment, imagination, or character. The pronoun refers to the narrowly trained student in the original essay, so the excerpt is not fully independent.

When to use it

• An engineering program includes ethics and history alongside technical problem solving.
• A school gives students open-ended projects that require judgment rather than rote execution.
• An employer mentors a gifted specialist in communication and responsibility before granting wider authority.