Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Education

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

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.

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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plato

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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 world is run by C students.

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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

Plato

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

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Weil, Simone

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

Jeph Jacques

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Plutarch

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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

William James

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

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Robert Hutchins

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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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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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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Pound, Ezra