Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Education

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stalin, Joseph

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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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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 is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Weil, Simone

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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 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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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 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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Socrates

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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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 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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

Porter, Sylvia

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