The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G. K. Chesterton
An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.
Sydney Wood
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Education is...Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
Kenneth G. Johnson
Education is...A form of self-delusion.
Elbert Hubbard
Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
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
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
Martin H. Fischer
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana