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Education

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

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Best Quotes about Education

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

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

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.

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

Plutarch

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

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

William James

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Weil, Simone

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Alec Bourne

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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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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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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

B. F. Skinner

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Robert Frost

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Socrates

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

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

Diogenes Laertius

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

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

Rogers, Carl

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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The world is run by C students.

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gail Godwin

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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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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.