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Education

"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead." ~Aristotle

"The minute you stepped inside school you lost your innocence." ~Anonymous

Show me the man who has enjoyed his school days and I will show you a bully and a bore." ~Robert Morley

"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake." ~Emerson

"They teach in academics far too many things, and far too much that is useless." ~Goethe

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books." ~Longfellow

"School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not." ~H. L. Mencken

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~Mark Twain

"Copying extensively from one source is plagiarism; copying extensively from several is research." ~Anonymous

""Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." ~Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~William Arthur Ward

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

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"God made the Idiot for practice, then He made the School Board." ~Mark Twain

"If you turn up forty, drunk and depressed at parties talking about how great everything was when you were in school, man, you are one sick puppy." ~Stephen King

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~Douglas Adams

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." ~Mark Twain