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

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

Gail Godwin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plutarch

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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 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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Weil, Simone

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

Clive James

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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

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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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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Twain, Mark

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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 education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.