Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

The world is run by C students.

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

Alec Bourne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

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

Robert Frost

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

Weil, Simone

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

Socrates

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

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rohn, Jim

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

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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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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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

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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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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.