Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Clive James

Best Quotes about Education

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

Russell Green

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

William James

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

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

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

Rogers, Carl

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

L. L. Henderson

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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 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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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

Socrates

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jeph Jacques

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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 world is run by C students.

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

Gail Godwin

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Plutarch

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

Pete Seeger

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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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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.