Motivational Quotes

Education

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

- James A. Garfield

Best Quotes about Education

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Socrates

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 world is run by C students.

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

Ruskin, John

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 have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Plutarch

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Porter, Sylvia

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Clive James

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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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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

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

Jeph Jacques

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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

Robert Frost

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

B. F. Skinner