Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

L. L. Henderson

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

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

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Socrates

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Alec Bourne

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Plato

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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