Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Gail Godwin

Best Quotes about Education

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

Stockdale, James B.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called 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

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

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

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

Plato

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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 just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rudolph, Lee

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

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

Plato

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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.

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

Jeph Jacques

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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