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The four columns of success are motivation, education, actions and relations

Med Jones

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.

Joel H. Hildebrand

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

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

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul E. Gray

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Hutchins

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea

Aldous Huxley

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G.K. Chesterton

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James R. Angell

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.

Jean Piaget

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppner

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Creighton

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Barnaby C. Keeney

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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