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School forces us to step outside of our comfort zones, educates us to dream big, and motivates us to reach our full potential.
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Education quotes
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
-HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
-JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
-JOSEPH ADDISON
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
-MAYA ANGELOU
Wit is educated insolence.
-ARISTOTLE
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-ARISTOTLE
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
-ARISTOTLE
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-ARISTOTLE
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
-LADY NANCY ASTOR
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.
-WALTER BAGEHOT
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
-JACQUES MARTIN BARZUN
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Education Is Important Quotes
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think–rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
-JEAN BEATTIE
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
-SMILEY BLANTON
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-DEREK CURTIS BOK
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
-CHUANG-TZU
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
-NORMAN COUSINS
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
-NORMAN COUSINS
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
-BISHOP CREIGHTON
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
-ABBE DIMNET
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
-TRYON EDWARDS
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Inspirational Education Quotes
Only the educated are free.
-EPICTETUS
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
-PAUL KARL FEYERABEND
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
Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
-DAVID PIERPONT GARDNER
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
-RUSSELL GREENE
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is being educated.
-EDITH HAMILTON
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him.
-GEOFFREY HOLDER
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
-WILLIAM RALPH INGE
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.
-ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
-ANNA JAMES
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
-DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
-FRANCIS KEPPEL
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
-GRAYSON KIRK
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