Motivational Quotes

Education

Education has for its object the formation of character.

- Herbert Spencer

Best Quotes about Education

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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

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

Plato

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Plato

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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 begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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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The world is run by C students.

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Robert Frost

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

Socrates

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Pound, Ezra

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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 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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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas