Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Zedong, Mao

Best Quotes about Education

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

Weil, Simone

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Ruskin, John

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

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.

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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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, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

Winder, Barbara W.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plato

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Robert Hutchins

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Gail Godwin

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

Pound, Ezra

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