"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alex Bourne

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - Henry Brougham

"The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house." - William F. Buckley Jr.

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

"Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." - Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

"I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew, Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who." - Rudyard Kipling

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

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." - Theodore Roosevelt

"He who can does. He who can't, teaches." - George Bernard Shaw

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner, in New Scientist

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

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." - JACQUES BARZUN, in Saturday Evening Post

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX, speech (1828)

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - MALCOLM FORBES, attributed, in Ann Landers' syndicated column

"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." - HORACE MANN, education report (1848)

"I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible." - ROBERT MOSES, speech (1971)

"'Tis Education forms the common mind,
Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."
- ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays

"In Examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell." - SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Laughter from a Cloud

"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, Intentions

"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty." - ROGER ASCHAM, The Scholemaster

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge." - CONFUCIUS, Analects

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. ELIOT, Four Quartets

"Little Gidding
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future."
- EURIPIDES, (fragment)

"All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee." - JUVENAL, Satires

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - DORIS LESSING, The Four-Gated City

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again."
- ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism

"Motivational catharses To me are mythic farces Something I will never know. But I will get my act together Buffalo will have good weather And grad school doesn't blow." - Brown, Thomas Ford

"My faculty adviser is a commie sympathizer who preaches Marx is great. When he mails across the nation letters of recommendation unemployment is my fate." - Brown, Thomas Ford

"If I had a dissertation there'd be no humiliation. I'd say 'Doctor, if you please.' [instrumental] I would publish all my theories in a twenty two part series, writing off the printing fees." - Callahan, Paul

"Hard to say, Ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused." - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip, responding to his teacher Mrs. Wormwood

"Life at a university with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at the postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap." - Chambers, Sir Paul (1904-1981) [British industrialist]

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Freedom'

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba

"Excuse me, teacher? May I be excused? My brain is full." - Larson, Gary a student, hand-raised, asks a question to his teacher in 'The Far Side'

"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)

"Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up." - McLuhan, Marshall quoted in Phillip Marchand's biography of him

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education." - Mizner, Wilson

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII, 536-E

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

" 'Students?' barked the Archchancellor.
'Yes, Master. You know? They're the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we're a *university*? They come with the whole thing, like rats...'"
- Pratchett, Terry in 'Moving Pictures'

"... [I]t is unfortunately in the nature of the academic career structure that there are always more people needing to say things than there are things that need to be said. (July Sept. 1992), p. 85." - Rosenthal, Michael from 'What was Postmodernism?' in 'Socialist Review', vol 22, no. 3

"College is a fountain of knowledge... and the students are there to drink." - Unknown

"Grad school: it's not just a job, it's an indenture." - Unknown

"If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable." - Unknown

"If this is an ivory tower, then I must be in the basement!" - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 9 August 1995

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)