Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Rogers, Carl

Best Quotes about Education

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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.

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

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

Clive James

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Robert Frost

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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 world is run by C students.

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

Alec Bourne

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get'em laminated.

Jeph Jacques

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

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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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 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.