An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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 an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
