Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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.

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

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

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

Plato

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Spark, Muriel

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

Rudolph, Lee

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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 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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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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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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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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.

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rogers, Carl

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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 education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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