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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Clive James

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ruskin, John

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Alec Bourne

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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 world is run by C students.

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

Gail Godwin

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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, 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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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Jeph Jacques

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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Socrates

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

James A. Garfield

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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