Motivational Quotes

Education

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

- William James

Best Quotes about Education

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Clive James

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

Stockdale, James B.

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Zedong, Mao

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

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

Socrates

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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

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

Plutarch

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plato

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

Pete Seeger

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

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

Plato