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
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. Trevelyan
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
R. Baker
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm S. Forbes
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William R. Inge
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
Desmond Bagley
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
Martin H. Fischer
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail