Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

The world is run by C students.

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

Gail Godwin

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

L. L. Henderson

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

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.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Porter, Sylvia

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Plato

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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

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

Socrates

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

Plato

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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 first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Robert Frost

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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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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Savage, Robert C.

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