Eduation Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
- Tallulah Bankhead

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
- Rita Mae Brown

Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know.
- G. K. Chesterton

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes George DeMille

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; Education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance.
- Will Durant

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
- Erich Fromm

We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Football is a sport that bears the same relationship to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
- Victor Hugo

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis

Now that education is so easy, men are drilled for greatness, just as dogs are trained to retrieve. In this way we've discovered a new sort of genius, those great at being drilled. These are the people who are mainly spoiling the market.
- G. C. Lichtenberg

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
- John Lubbock

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
- Will Rogers

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.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.
- Osbert Sitwell

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
- B. F. Skinner

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
- Josephine Tey

Education is going to college to learn to express your ignorance in scientific terms.
- Unknown

Education should include knowledge of what to do with it.
- Unknown

Never let your studies interfere with your education.
- Unknown

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- John Updike

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughan

The whole problem of intellectual education is controlled by lack of time. If Methuselah was not a well-educated man, it was his own fault or that of his teachers.
- Alfred North Whitehead