Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Ruskin, John

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Weil, Simone

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Savage, Robert C.

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.

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

Rogers, Carl

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

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

Plato

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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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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Ruskin, John

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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 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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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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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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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 education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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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 world is run by C students.

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Rohn, Jim

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Alec Bourne

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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 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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Socrates

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Jeph Jacques

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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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

Gail Godwin

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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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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer