Education Quotes

He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.

William Ellery Chann

A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.

Anon

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

John Ray

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Will Rogers

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

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

In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Oscar Wilde

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

Hesketh Pearson

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm still waiting for some college to come up with a march protesting student ignorance.

Paul Larmer