Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Education

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Russell Green

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plato

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

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

William James

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

Plutarch

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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, 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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Plato

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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 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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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 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

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

Clive James

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

B. F. Skinner

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.