A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Quotes
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533