Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Education

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.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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.

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

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

Plato

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Rohn, Jim

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Socrates

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

William James

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

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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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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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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Gail Godwin

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Savage, Robert C.