Motivational Quotes

Education

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

- Alec Bourne

Best Quotes about Education

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Pound, Ezra

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Schelling, Felix E.

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.

Rees, R. I.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of'em on the wall in my room.

Jeph Jacques

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Rudolph, Lee

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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Reverend Edward A. Malloy

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

Ellen DeGeneres

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Phillips, Wendell

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

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Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Porter, Sylvia

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James

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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get'em laminated.

Jeph Jacques

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Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

Winder, Barbara W.

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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Piaget, Jean

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Weil, Simone

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas H. Huxley

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher