Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Quotes
Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCIt is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851What 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, 1533Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905