The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. – William R. Inge
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. – Will Rogers
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. – Lewis Carroll
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. – Brander Matthews
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, “Have a nice day.” – Peter Brodie
Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more? – Dennis Rubin
Education! Why say it is a stimulant when it is really an anaesthetic? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. – Michel de Montaigne
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. – Albert Edward Wiggam
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. – George Santayana
My parents told me, “Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.” I tell my daughters, “Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.” – Thomas L. Friedman
Education is the transmission of civilization. – Ariel and Will Durant
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain
