Funny Quotes About Education - Page 4

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
        —Henry B. Adams

A college education shows a man how little other people know.
        —Haliburton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
        —G. K. Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
        —G K Chesterton

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
        —Francis Keppel

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
        —Flannery O'Conner

Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
        —Finley Peter Dunne

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
        —Finley Peter Dunne

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
        —Douglas Adams