Education Quotes

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Thomas

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Will Durant

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Finley Peter Dunne

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

J. Frank Dobie

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

John mason Brown

The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

Josiah Stamp

[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde