Motivational Quotes

Education

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Education

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

Savage, Robert C.

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 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

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

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rogers, Carl

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pete Seeger

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Ruskin, John

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

Clive James

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Alec Bourne

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The world is run by C students.

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

Robert Frost