Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Diogenes Laertius

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plutarch

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

L. L. Henderson

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

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

Robert Frost

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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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The world is run by C students.

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Russell Green

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

Gail Godwin

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

William James

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Pete Seeger

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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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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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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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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 is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Whitney, Orson F.

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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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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 what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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

Plato

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

G. M. Trevelyan