Motivational Quotes

Education

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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Best Quotes about Education

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Plato

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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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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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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Jeph Jacques

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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 begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Pound, Ezra

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

B. F. Skinner

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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