School is for making people dumb, very dumb

Theodore 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.

H. H. Munro

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

William Hazlitt

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Anne Sullivan (I bow to her.)

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.

Alice Duer Miller

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Emma Goldman

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Edward M. Forster

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

William John Bennett

If [our schools] are still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

John Updike

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Robert Buzzell

The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.

Robert M. Hutchins

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Max Leon Forman

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

Phillip K. Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

David P. Gardner

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Ivan Illich

The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Together we have come to realize that the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.