Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Savage, Robert C.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

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

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

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

Socrates

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.

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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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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gail Godwin

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Plato

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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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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

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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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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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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

Plutarch

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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Rogers, Carl

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Wilde, Oscar

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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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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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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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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Richards, Beah

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

Plato

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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 great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

B. F. Skinner

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