Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.