Motivational Quotes

Education

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.

Best Quotes about Education

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

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

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

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Robert Hutchins

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

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

Savage, Robert C.

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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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 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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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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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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Winder, Barbara W.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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The world is run by C students.

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Weil, Simone

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

B. F. Skinner

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Plutarch

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

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

Porter, Sylvia

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Pete Seeger

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

Plato

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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Ruskin, John

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

Evan Esar

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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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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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