[Eductiona is] one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. William Lowe Bryan

[Education is] hanging around until you've caught on. Robert Frost

[Education is] one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand A. Russell

[Education is] man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. Kenneth G. Johnson

[Education is] a form of self-delusion. Elbert Hubbard

[Education is a process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another. Oscar Wilde

[Education is] the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent. Josiah Stamp

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. George Savile

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

[Education is] a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. George Bernard Shaw

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

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Prof. Irwin Edman

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money. Max Forman

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Henry Brooks Adams

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. Henry Fielding

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic. Robert M. Hutchins

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever. John mason Brown

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