Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Education

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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

Gail Godwin

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

Plutarch

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

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

Robert Hutchins

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Porter, Sylvia

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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The world is run by C students.

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Plato

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Clive James

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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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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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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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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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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Rohn, Jim