Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Zedong, Mao

Best Quotes about Education

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

Plato

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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.

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

Rogers, Carl

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Plato

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

Socrates

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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 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 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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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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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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 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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Rohn, Jim