Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plato

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.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

B. F. Skinner

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

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

Savage, Robert C.

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.

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.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Plato

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

Gail Godwin

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

Weil, Simone

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Rogers, Carl

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

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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

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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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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 world is run by C students.

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

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

William James

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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.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer