Education Quotes #2
Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
H. H. Munro
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Robert Frost
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the schoolboys who educate my son.
Alice James
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
Helen Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Margaret Mead
My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
William Hazlitt
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.
Laurence J. Peter
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Anne Sullivan
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Alice Duer Miller
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
Florence King
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Emma Goldman
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Edward M. Forster
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
William John Bennett
If [our schools] are still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
John Updike
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
Robert Buzzell
The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
Robert M. Hutchins
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Elbert Hubbard
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Max Leon Forman
Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little as he can for his money.
Phillip K. Dick
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
David P. Gardner
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
Ivan Illich
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Together we have come to realize that the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
Marshall McLuhan
The school system ... is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Michel De Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understandingunfurnished and void.
Peter Drucker
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
C. C. Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
John Dewey
It is our American habit, if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory, to add another story or a wing.
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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?
Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.
