Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plato

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

Pete Seeger

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

L. L. Henderson

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

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

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 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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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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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Plato

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Clive James

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Alec Bourne

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

Socrates

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

William James