Motivational Quotes

Education

Education has for its object the formation of character.

- Herbert Spencer

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

Robert Hutchins

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

Zedong, Mao

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

Evan Esar

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Socrates

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.

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.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Plato

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Rogers, Carl

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Weil, Simone

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Plutarch

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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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The world is run by C students.

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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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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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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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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

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

Alec Bourne

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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

Socrates

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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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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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

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Clive James

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

B. F. Skinner

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