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

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

B. F. Skinner

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.

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

Pound, Ezra

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Updike, John

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

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

Alec Bourne

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

Weil, Simone

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Plato

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rohn, Jim

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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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

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

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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 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 world is run by C students.

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Robert Frost

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Socrates

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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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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.