Education and Knowledge

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience .

The problem with education is school.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble .

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects .

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter .

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught .

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.