Quotes About Education
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Whether you're the student or the teacher, quotes about education are helpful to read as you look for the energy and inspiration to continue on with the noble pursuit of knowledge.

So, in the spirit of positively “nudging” those folks, here is some food for thought; ideas to consider as you make your final decision.

Hopefully the following quotes about education will be of service to you. Some are practical. Some are motivational. Alas, some are just funny.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
(Malcolm Forbes)

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
(George Bernard Shaw)

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
(Aleister Crowley)

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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)

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)

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)

One of the first steps toward self-discovery is, of course, an education, the broadest you can possibly get. Go to college if you can. If you can’t, give yourself a college education at home, in your spare time. Many a young man and young woman has done that.
(Dr. Orison Swett Marden in his classic book “Success Fundamentals”)

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Did these quotes about education help to get you inspired about education again? If you're in college, going to college, or just thinking about the possibility of pursuing higher education, we hope these words of wisdom were helpful to you.

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