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Education

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Best Quotes about Education

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Jeph Jacques

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Rogers, Carl

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.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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

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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 great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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 a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Ruskin, John

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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 has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Porter, Sylvia

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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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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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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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

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

Alec Bourne

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my 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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus