Motivational Quotes

Education

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Education

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

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

Clive James

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

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

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

Robert Frost

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

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

Rogers, Carl

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

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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 a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The world is run by C students.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Diogenes Laertius

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plato

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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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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 purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Gail Godwin

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Porter, Sylvia

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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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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.