Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

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

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

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

Pete Seeger

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

Robert Frost

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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.

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

B. F. Skinner

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Wilde, Oscar

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

Plutarch

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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 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

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Gail Godwin

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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

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The world is run by C students.

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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