Quotes about Education

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A. Whitney Brown	Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
Al McGuire	I think the world is run by C students.
Albert Einstein	Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Alec Bourne	It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)	How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? it must be education that does it.
Anonymous	Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Aristotle (384 - 322 b.c.)	It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)	Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)	Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are make stupid by education.
Bill Murray	We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child -- even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Remember always that the parents buy the books, and that the children never read them.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Fats Domino	A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
Frank Herbert	Education is no substitute for intelligence. - (Quoted from Chapterhouse: Dune)
G. M. Trevelyan	Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
H. H. Munro (1870 - 1916)	You can't expect a boy to be depraved until he has been to a good school.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)	What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
James Garfield (1831 - 1881)	Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - (20th U.S. President)
Laurence J. Peter	Education is a method wherby one acquires a higher grade of predjudices.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)	Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)	Soap and education are not as sudden as massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Michael Wikoff	Education gives stupid people delusions of normalcy, normal people delusions of granduer, and intelligent people delusions of accomplishment. All three are meaningless.
Michel De Montaigne	I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)	Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)	Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Russell Green	The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)	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.
Tom Robbins	If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Victor Hugo	Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of an education.

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