On the subject of education

[Zeno]

All the following quotes are from "The Portable Curmudgeon" compiled and edited by Jon Winokur.

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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. - John Maynard Keynes



Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce




Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run. - Mark Twain




Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell




Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas




We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson




Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. - Oscar Wilde



You can't expect a boy to be depraved until he has gone to a good school. - Saki



"Whom are you?” said he, for he had been to night school. - George Ade




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Goodnight.

-Zeno