Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Education

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

Socrates

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

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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

Plato

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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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

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

B. F. Skinner

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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 kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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

Clive James

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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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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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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Frost

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rogers, Carl

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Plutarch