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Only the educated are free.
-Epictetus
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
-Edward Everett
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
-Paul Karl Feyerabend
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
-Henry Fielding
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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
-Henry Fielding
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
-Martin H. Fischer
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
-E. M. Forster
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Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
-E. M. Forster
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
-Anatole France
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-Anatole France
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
-Robert Frost
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
-Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
-David P. Gardner
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
-John W. Gardner
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
-John W. Gardner
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Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.
-John Gatto, Upon receiving the New York City Teacher of the Year Award, January 31, 1990
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Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints.
-Moshe Gerstenhaber
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
-Jean Giraudoux
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
-Gail Godwin
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Books about Education
