Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- L. L. Henderson

Best Quotes about Education

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

Zedong, Mao

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

L. L. Henderson

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

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

Socrates

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

James A. Garfield

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

Plato

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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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Weil, Simone

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

William James

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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Gail Godwin

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Clive James

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

Savage, Robert C.

39.

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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