Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
By: Martin H. Fischer


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
By: Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents


Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
By: John Maynard Keynes


One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
By: Peter Brodie


If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
By: Heinrich Heine


A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
By: Brander Matthews


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


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.
By: Richard Yates


Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
By: Roger Lewin


The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
By: William R. Inge


Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
By: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
By: Michel de Montaigne


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


To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
By: Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.
By: Leighann Lord


What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
By: Henry David Thoreau


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.
By: R. Baker


I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
By: Tallulah Bankhead


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