Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Education

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

Jeph Jacques

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

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

Young, Brigham

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

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.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Ruskin, John

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

Wu Ting-Fang

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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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Plato

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

Plato

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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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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 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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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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 world is run by C students.

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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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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Gail Godwin

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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 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

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

G. M. Trevelyan