A Collection of Quotes on Education
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. -Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons. -H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor, critic and writer.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. -Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer, poet and playwright. "The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 1."
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician and writer.
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. -Jerome David Salinger (1919- ) U. S. novelist and short-story writer.
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. -H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor, critic and writer.
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -James Frank Dobie (1888–1964) American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist.
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry…. I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not… -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. -Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life. -Petronius (d. circa 66 CE) The Satyricon.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. -Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist.
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 (1874-1936) British author
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, author, scientist, inventor and philosopher.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.
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