Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Education

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rogers, Carl

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

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

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.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Socrates

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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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 number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Plato

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Gail Godwin

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

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

Plutarch

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher