Motivational Quotes

Education

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

Best Quotes about Education

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

Evan Esar

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Young, Brigham

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Pound, Ezra

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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

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

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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

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

B. F. Skinner

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plutarch

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Plato

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

Diogenes Laertius

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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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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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

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

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

Robert Frost