Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Rohn, Jim

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

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

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 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

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

Alec Bourne

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Clive James

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

Plato

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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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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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Richards, Beah

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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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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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Plutarch

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Plato

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

Pound, Ezra

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Porter, Sylvia

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