Motivational Quotes

Education

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

- Helen Keller

Best Quotes about Education

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Gail Godwin

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

Stockdale, James B.

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Plutarch

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

Alec Bourne

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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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Sullivan, Anne

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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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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says,trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Weeks, Claire

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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

B. F. Skinner

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Jeph Jacques

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

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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

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