Motivational Quotes

Education

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

- William James

Best Quotes about Education

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

Diogenes Laertius

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

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

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

Plato

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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pete Seeger

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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

Clive James

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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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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Gail Godwin

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Socrates

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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

L. L. Henderson

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Porter, Sylvia

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

Savage, Robert C.

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

Rudolph, Lee

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

Pound, Ezra

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Quinet, Edgar

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.