Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

Spark, Muriel

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

Clive James

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

Ruskin, John

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Rohn, Jim

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.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Ruskin, John

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Gail Godwin

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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.

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

B. F. Skinner

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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Whitney, Orson F.

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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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Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Jeph Jacques

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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

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plato

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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Weil, Simone

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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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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

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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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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Savage, Robert C.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Evan Esar

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

Rudolph, Lee

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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The world is run by C students.

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

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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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield