Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
- Pete Seeger
Education Quotes and Sayings
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
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
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
The founding fathers provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
- John Updike
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, “Have a nice day.
- Peter Brodie
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.
- Ernest Renan
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine
We are students of words we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Erich Fromm
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
- Tallulah Bankhead
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain
Education That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
- Will Rogers