Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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.

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pound, Ezra

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

B. F. Skinner

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Plutarch

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

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

Plato

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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 begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Porter, Sylvia

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Clive James

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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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