Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Savage, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

Alec Bourne

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

Ruskin, John

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

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.

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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The world is run by C students.

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

William James

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

Pete Seeger

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

Plutarch

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Socrates

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

B. F. Skinner

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

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

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

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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

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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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 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