A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
—George Bernard Shaw
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H. G. Wells
Education has for its object the formation of character.
—Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
—Herbert Spencer
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
—James A. Garfield
That's what college is for—getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
—Jeph Jacques
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
—John Ciardi
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
—John Mason Brown
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
—L. L. Henderson
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
—Laurence J. Peter
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
—Burk Hudson
The giving of love is an education in itself.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
—Norman Douglas
I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher.
—Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
—Fats Domino