Funny Quotes About Education - Page 5

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
        —Derek Bok

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
        —Brander Matthews

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
        —Benjamin Franklin

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
        —Beatrix Potter

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
        —Anne Sullivan

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
        —Ambrose Bierce

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
        —Alvin Toffler

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
        —Alice James

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
        —Alec Bourne

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
        —Albert Einstein

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
        —Abraham Lincoln