No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound
Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm
