Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Education

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.

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

Gail Godwin

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

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

Jeph Jacques

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Plato

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

B. F. Skinner

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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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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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

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The world is run by C students.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Plutarch

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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