~ Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~
~ There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ~
~ He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. ~
~ Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it. ~
~ Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. ~
~ The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. ~
~ Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~
~ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~
~ Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~
~ Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~
~ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~
~ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~