More quotations tagged with “education”
Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things—possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on.
—John G. Bennett
You must adjust.… This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
—Robert Lindner
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
—Alec Bourne
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
—Evan Esar
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
—Malcolm Forbes