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Quotes

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1923

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

—Joseph Stalin, 1934

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

—Allen Ginsberg, 1981

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

—Laurence Sterne, 1760

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

—Alice James, 1889

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

—Francis Picabia, 1949

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

—Mark Twain, 1897

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

—Erasmus, 1518

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

—Camille Paglia, 1992