Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Best Quotes about Education

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.

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

Robert Hutchins

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.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Gail Godwin

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

Rudolph, Lee

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rogers, Carl

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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

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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 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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

Socrates

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

Pete Seeger

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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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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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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 world is run by C students.

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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 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

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Plato

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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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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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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