Americans believe in education: the average professor earns more money in
a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
— Evan Esar
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
— George Ade
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills
all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
— Napoleon
Most people can tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it
in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
— Stephen Leacock
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the
education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm
I would trade
all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
— Steve
Jobs
A child miseducated is a child lost.
— John F. Kennedy
University: . . . a place where rich men send their sons who
have no aptitude for business.
— Kin Hubbard
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so
stupid. It must be education that does it.
— Alexandre Dumas
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not
constitute education, any more than a
knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
— John Lubbock
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they
know so much that ain't so.
— Josh Billings
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought
himself at twenty.
— Mary Wilson Little
Education
and money do not necessarily go hand in hand.
— Dave Erhard
I think the world is run by C students.
— Al McGuire, American collegiate basketball coach
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it
consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It
is a moral illumination.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
An education obtained with money is worse than no education
at all.
— Socrates
Economics 101 won't get you off welfare, but at least you
will know why you are there.
— Graffiti at a university
You may be a redneck if . . . . you have spent more on your
pickup truck than on your education.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of
ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
Strange how much you've got to know, before you know how little you know.
— Unknown Wise Person
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
— Alec Bourne
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book,
pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the
moment you die, is a process of learning.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I swear . . . to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner
in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own
brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
— Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 370 B.C.), Greek physician. The Hippocratic Oath.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
— Thomas Szasz
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is
not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like
Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
— Charles Lamb
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who,
in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
— Simone Weil
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions
that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me,
I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
— Franz Kafka
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it.
This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
— George Gurdjieff
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially
and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an
avocation?
— H. L. Mencken
Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension,
don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can
do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
— from Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone.
— Pink Floyd, The Wall
An education enables you to earn more than an educator.
— Unknown Wise Person
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their
lives.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.
— Benjamin Franklin
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with
the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
Do you know the difference
between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get
when you don't.
— Pete Seeger
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
Classical education in the English public schools consists of casting sham pearls in front
of real swine.
— Anonymous
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a
Blockhead.
— George Savile
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
— George Savile
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something.
It's the best possible training for life.
— Robert Morley
If there is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.
— Nathan M. Pusey
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.
— Mark Twain
An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find
shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.
— Adam Smith
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a
classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow
escape.
— William Hazlitt
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large
kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping
young men out of mischief.
— Bishop Mandell Creighton
Education is fatal to anyone with a spark of artistic feeling. Education should be confined
to clerks, and even them it drives to drink.
— George Moore
What is the task of higher education? To make man into a
machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
— Mark Twain
It is only the learned who care to learn, the ignorant who
prefer to teach.
— Edouard Le Berquier
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
— Sir Walter Raleigh
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this
afternoon.
— John Skow
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long
as the rich and educated show them how.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly
music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
— George Santayana
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always
find someone else to do it for you.
— Mark Twain
It doesn't make much difference what you study so long as you hate it.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
— Voltaire
You can't expect a boy to be vicious until he's been to a good school.
— Saki
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if
you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
— Arnold Edinborough
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
— Norman Douglas
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the
incompetent.
— John Maynard Keynes
We all need an education in the obvious.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless
he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
— Evelyn Waugh
The difference between intelligence and education is this:
intelligence will make you a good living.
— Charles F. Kettering
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
— Aldous Huxley
A professor is a man whose job is to tell students how to
solve the problems of life which he himself has tried to avoid by becoming a professor.
— Unknown wise person
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
— George Peabody
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you
to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
— Russell Green
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an
education.
— Wilson Mizner
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now now is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance.
— Will Durant
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that
is being educated.
— Edith Hamilton
Education is the transmission of civilization.
— Will and Ariel Durant
Care about understanding and before you know it,
in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
— from Messiah's Handbook by Richard Bach
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to
wander around loose in these dangerous days.
— M. M. Coady
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of
the child.
— George Bernard Shaw
The teacher should never lose his temper in the presence of
the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies; if a woman, she may follow the example of
one sweet-faced and apparently tranquil girl — go out in the yard and gnaw a post.
— William Lyon Phelps
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student
good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers too, have failed.
— Marva Collins
Make a kid feel stupid and he'll act stupider.
— John Holt
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay
cash.
— Rita Mae Brown
In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made
school boards.
— Mark Twain
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is the progressive discovery of our
ignorance.
— Will Durant
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
— Latin Proverb
If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
— from Messiah's Handbook by Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn.
— from Messiah's Handbook by Richard Bach
A learned man has riches in himself.
— Latin Proverb
Universities are full of knowledge. The freshmen bring a little in and the
seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.
— Lawrence Lowell
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there millions more of happy people?
— Unknown wise person
He mastered whatever was not worth knowing.
— James Russell Lowell
The dog [or person] who is too old to learn new tricks always has
been.
— Unknown wise person
One of the advantages of being stupid is that you do not get lonesome.
— Unknown wise person
When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course.
— Peter Drucker
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned it it, teachers and
taught.
— Henry Adams
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
— Paulo Coelho
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for
living and educating for making a living..
— James Mason Wood
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young
and inflame their intellects.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a
substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
— John Dewey
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which
to spend one's leisure.
— Sydney J. Harris
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the
martyr.
— Mohammed
I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly,
skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
— John Milton
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when
Johnny still can't read.
— Governor Jerry Brown
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
—Ronald Reagan
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring
the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
— Michel de Montaigne
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is the only country left where we teach languages so
that no pupil can speak them.
— John Erskine
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church . . . neutral or lay schools from which
religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
— Pope Pius XI
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual
and society.
— Gunnar Myrdal
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present
consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have
known at all.
— Noel Coward
The greatest challenges facing both the arts and education are how to navigate the perilous
course between adventure and discipline; how to respond to tradition without either rejecting it or
becoming its slave.
— Robert W. Corrigan
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific
bills.
— Minna Antrim
Today, educational levels are replacing class structures as the significant vertical
stratification of society . . . Possibly — and this may be the hardest task of the next fifty years—we may
even discover how to preserve and enhance the self-respect of those who fall far behind in the education
race.
— Max Ways
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to
unlearn things.
— G. K. Chesterton
Education is a method by which one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
— Laurence J. Peter
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national
problems — the answer for all the problems of the world — comes to a single word. That word is
"education."
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If a prolonged education does nothing else it gives the mind a sort of shyness and induces
either a perfect sensitivity to words, or it induces silence, the conviction that nothing can ever again be
said better than it has been said before.
— Gwyn Thomas
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but
so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them — capable of any, when they shall apply themselves
to it.
— John Locke
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
— A. Whitney Griswold
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence .., and it can be fostered by
education.
— Bertrand Russell
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no
people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
— Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
The traditional educational theory [is] to the effect that the way to bring up children is
to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as
possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order
that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.
— S. I. Hayakawa
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to
learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely
ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't
know can't hurt you . . . a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of
knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
— Carl Becker
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.
Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
— Albert Edward Wiggam
Education can train, but not create, intelligence.
—Edward McChesney Sait
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all thingsthe 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.
— Samuel Johnson
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good
man when you see one.
— William James
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.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn
anything else.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
All of us learn to write in the second grade ... most of us go on to greater things.
— Bobby Knight
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know
nothing.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through
those doors.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age, purports to equip us to live and is
prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. For the
most part it only serves to enlarge stupidity, inflate conceit, enchance credulity and put those subjected
to it at the mercy of brain-washers with printing, presses, radio and TV at their disposal.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
That's the trouble with these people who went to state
schools. They don't know how to confuse the public.
— Alexander Buzo
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
— Laurence J. Peter
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
— John Wooden
The dog too old to learn new tricks always has been.
— Unknown wise person
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
— Benjamin Franklin
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one
can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful,
because normally no-one reads such essays.
— Robert B. Parker
Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance.
— Will Durant
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can
only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not
leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.
— Fran Lebowitz
Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity
and fraudulent expertise.
— John Rae
Education is what most people receive, many pass on and few
have.
— Karl Kraus
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
— Robert E. Lee
