[AnnonUSA]

Based on some of the Education threads (or the I am Useless threads) I found these quotes about education to be very interesting.

I really like the ones I bolded.



It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne

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 do know and what you don't. Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)


Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger

[gilligan]

another good post by the wise owl...

education is something noone can ever take from you.