Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Gail Godwin

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

Pete Seeger

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

B. F. Skinner

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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Weil, Simone

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

Robert Frost

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Alec Bourne

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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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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 begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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 education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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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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The world is run by C students.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plato

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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 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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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.