Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Education

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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

Alec Bourne

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Clive James

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Plutarch

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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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The world is run by C students.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Robert Frost

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

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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Socrates

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

Savage, Robert C.

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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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Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao