Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
- Woody Allen

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
- Walt Disney

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation.  What they mean is that we go to school longer.  It is not the same thing.
- Richard Yates

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Allan Bloom

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana

Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Will Durant

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
- Herbert Spencer

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
- William Haley

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.  Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- Albert Edward Wiggam

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
- Ambrose Bierce

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes – incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
- Martin H. Fischer

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
- Martin H. Fischer

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

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.
- Russell Baker

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Aristotle

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
- Tre Cool

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

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