The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Quotes
Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670