Quotes about education

Any man can read, my lord. There is no magic needed, nor high birth.

I have been taught to look upon those means, by which men raise themselves to riches and distinction, as being beyond my heeding, and beneath my care. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.

Socialization through schooling, as it takes place here, and in Western societies, in general, is a priori stupefaction

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.

What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?

I try to explain... how to think, rather than what to think.

The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.