Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
– Brigham Young
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
– Irwin Edman
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
– Francis Keppel
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
– Karl Kraus
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
– Albert Einstein
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
– B.F. Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
– B. F. Skinner
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
– Unknown
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
– Pete Seeger
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
– Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
– Erich Fromm
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
– Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
– Noam Chomsky
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
– Kahlil Gibran
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
– Bertrand Russell
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
– G. M. Trevelyan
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
– George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
– Mark Twain
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
– John Maynard Keynes
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
– Elbert Hubbard
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
– Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.
