In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Quotes
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851