Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Clive James

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Alec Bourne

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Diogenes Laertius

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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Pete Seeger

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

Plato

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

Plutarch

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

Plato

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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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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

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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 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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Weil, Simone

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

L. L. Henderson

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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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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.

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The world is run by C students.

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich