Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Young, Brigham

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

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

Plato

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.

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

Socrates

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

L. L. Henderson

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

Rogers, Carl

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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 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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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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.

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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 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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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Plutarch

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.