Dull Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning…

— Sydney J. Harris

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

— William Godwin

All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job…

— Henry Giroux

“Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living from a qualification but also how to survive beyond the qualification”

— Edgar Mangwende

“Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you…

— Mark Edmundson

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

— George Pope Morris

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require,…

— Samuel Johnson

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

— John Ruskin

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not…

— Robert J. Shiller

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

— Peter Jones

“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make…

— Dorothea Brande