Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Clive James

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

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

William James

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

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Robert Hutchins

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

Updike, John

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

Plutarch

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

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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The world is run by C students.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plato

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

B. F. Skinner

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

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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 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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Ruskin, John

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Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Plato

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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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