Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of
ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds
pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Barzun
I won't say our school was tough, but we had our own coroner.
We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
- Lenny Bruce
Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.
- Samuel Clemens
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years.
- Samuel Clemens
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
That which we do not call education is more precious than that
which we call so.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education,
but the means of an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should
be life.
- Elbert Green Hubbard
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education.
- Victor Hugo
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are
dimmed.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
- Wilson Mizner
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem
more highly those who think alike than those who think
differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of
prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the
mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education
be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to
find out the natural bent of the child.
- Plato
Some people never learn anything because they understand
everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on
knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
- Ezra Loomis Pound
I've learned... that the best classroom in the world is at
the feet of an elderly person.
- Andy Rooney
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by
education.
- Bertrand Russell
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in
his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G.M. Trevelyan
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of
necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
- Leon Trotsky
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.
- William Butler Yeats
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
- Unknown