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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Diogenes Laertius

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plato

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Porter, Sylvia

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Alec Bourne

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

B. F. Skinner

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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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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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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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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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Richards, Beah

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

Gail Godwin

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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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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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller