The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. George Saville, Marquis of Hallifax (1633-1695) English statesman and essayist. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer. In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist. The Critic as Artist. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams. There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. Will Rogers (1879-1935) U.S. actor and humorist. Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) U.S. journalist and writer. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. John Ray (1627?-1705) English naturalist. A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers. Anon He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) U.S. Unitarian clergyman and writer. Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel (1916–1990) American educator, U.S. Commissioner of Education (1962–1965). Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson (1895-1972) U.S. author, literary and social critic. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist. Everywhere I go Im asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough of them. Theres many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Mary Flannery OConnor (1925–1964) American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963) American poet. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. C. C. Colton, Lacon: Reflections, No. 322.
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