Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plato

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Rohn, Jim

The world is run by C students.

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.

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

Robert Hutchins

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

B. F. Skinner

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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 a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Plato

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Weil, Simone

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Robert Frost

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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pete Seeger

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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Gail Godwin

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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.

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

Rogers, Carl

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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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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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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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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 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, 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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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