Motivational Quotes

Education

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.

Best Quotes about Education

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

B. F. Skinner

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Socrates

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

Robert Hutchins

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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

Gail Godwin

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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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 a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Weil, Simone

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plato

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

Alec Bourne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas H. Huxley

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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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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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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says,trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Weeks, Claire

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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

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

Pound, Ezra

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Schelling, Felix E.

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Plutarch

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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 purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.