Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Education

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

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Pete Seeger

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

Socrates

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

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.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Savage, Robert C.

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Plato

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Porter, Sylvia

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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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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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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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The world is run by C students.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Clive James

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Gail Godwin

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Plutarch

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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 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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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar