Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Education

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

William James

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

Plato

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

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.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

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.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

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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 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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gail Godwin

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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 teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Weil, Simone

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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 education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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

Jeph Jacques

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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 what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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