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
Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.
– Unknown
Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.
– Jim Rohn
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
– John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
– Woody Allen
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
– Alexandre Dumas
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H. G. Wells
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
I hope to change things for the better, For 30 years this country has been about left versus right. Now we want to change things on the inside: national service, education, housing, a middle class that cannot finish the month.
– Yair Lapid
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
– Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
– Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
– Alice James
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
– Xenophon
If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.
– Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
– Andy McIntyre
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
– Derek Curtis Bok
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
– Frank Zappa
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
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
– Sigmund Freud
