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That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

—H.G. Wells, 1920

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

—Mark Twain, 1897

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

—Camille Paglia, 1992

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

—Frederick Douglass, 1852

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

—E.M. Forster, 1951

I 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, 1970

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

—Alice James, 1889

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

—George Santayana, 1905