Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plutarch

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

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Plato

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

Socrates

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Jeph Jacques

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The world is run by C students.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Plato

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Robert Frost

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Porter, Sylvia

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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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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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.