Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Education

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

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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

Weil, Simone

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao

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.

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

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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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 education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Pete Seeger

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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 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

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

Plutarch

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Socrates

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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Ruskin, 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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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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 world is run by C students.

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

Rogers, Carl

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