Education(44)

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Ezra Pound

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."
Ernest Renan

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
Will Rogers

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."
Will Rogers

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
Carl Rogers

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
George Santayana

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."
Muriel Spark

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
Henry David Thoreau

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
G. M. Trevelyan