Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Alec Bourne

Best Quotes about Education

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Clive James

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

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

Alec Bourne

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

Pete Seeger

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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 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

11.

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.

12.

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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

Ellen DeGeneres

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

B. F. Skinner

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Gail Godwin

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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 world is run by C students.

26.

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

27.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

William James

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

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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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

Plato

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

Jeph Jacques

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Socrates

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.