Motivational Quotes

Education

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.

Best Quotes about Education

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Robert Hutchins

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

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

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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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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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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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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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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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Socrates

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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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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Whitney, Orson F.

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Plato

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Diogenes Laertius

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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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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

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

Gail Godwin

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Plato

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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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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.