Motivational Quotes

Education

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

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

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

B. F. Skinner

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.

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

Alec Bourne

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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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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 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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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The world is run by C students.

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Socrates

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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