Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plato

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Young, Brigham

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

William James

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

James A. Garfield

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

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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 what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Diogenes Laertius

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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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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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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, 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.

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Socrates

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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The world is run by C students.