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

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

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Clive James

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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 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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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.

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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 best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Socrates

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

B. F. Skinner

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The world is run by C students.

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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Gail Godwin

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

Savage, Robert C.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

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