| Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they
are made stupid by education.
Bertrand A. Russell
They say that we are better educated than
our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to
school longer. They are not the same thing.
Douglas Yates
Education does not mean teaching people to
know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave
as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
But, good gracious, you've got to educate
him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's
been to a good school.
Saki
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his
master.
Leonardo da Vinci
When asked how much educated men were superior
to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the
living are to the dead.
Diogenes Laertius
Your Education is worth what You are worth.
Anon
The great aim of education is not knowledge,
but action.
Herbert Spencer
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting
a fire.
William B. Yeats
The primary purpose of a liberal education
is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend
one's time.
Sydney J. Harris
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Anon
An educated man is one who can entertain
a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.
Sydney Wood
Examinations are formidable even to the best
prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest
man can answer.
C.C. Colton
Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education is too important to be left solely
to educators.
Francis Keppel
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