Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Education

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Stockdale, James B.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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

Ruskin, John

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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 effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Plato

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Rudolph, Lee

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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 just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

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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