- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell 1872-1970.
- A lecture is a process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either. R.K. Rathbun.
- A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann.
- Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there. John Roueche.
- If a professor can be replaced by a CD-ROM, he/she should be. Jack Wilson.
- Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. Albert Einstein.
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. [New York Times, 1931]
- Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Josephine Tey.
- Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. William Lowe Bryan.
- Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun.
- There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the wardens and the governor. George Bernard Shaw.
- I try not to let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.
- I learned three important things in college---to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, and to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. Agnes de Mille.
- Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox.
- Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle.
- Examinations are formidable even to the best-prepared; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Colton.
- If you are given an open-book exam you will forget your book. If you are given a take-home exam you will forget where you live. Variant of Murphy's Law.
- The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. Philip K. Dick
- If you want a track team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot. Anonymous.
- Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle.
- The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936
- Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself. Gilbert Highet.
- Four to six weeks in the lab can save you an hour in the library. G.C. Quarderer.
- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll.
- I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
- He who can does. He who can't, teaches. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
- Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Mark Twain [SL Clemens] 1835-1910.
You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. -Hugh Macleod.