Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Pete Seeger

Best Quotes about Education

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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

Weil, Simone

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Robert Frost

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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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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 great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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

Ruskin, John

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

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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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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Clive James

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Gail Godwin

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

Plato

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rogers, Carl