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

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

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.

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

Robert Frost

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

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.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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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Richards, Beah

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

Socrates

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

B. F. Skinner

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

William James

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

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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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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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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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Gail Godwin

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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 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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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

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

Plutarch

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer