Motivational Quotes

Education

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

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

Gail Godwin

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Savage, Robert C.

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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 world is run by C students.

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plato

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

Plato

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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 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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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

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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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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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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James

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

Pete Seeger

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

Socrates

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

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

Plutarch

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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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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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mary Pettibone Poole