Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

IRSIN EDMAN

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.

JOHN UPDIKE

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS, père

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.

TERRY PRATCHETT

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why not pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

WILL ROGERS

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can’t, there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

PETER USTINOV

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

GLENN T. SEABORG

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.

TALLULAH BANKHEAD

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

LEON BOTSTEIN

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

CLARK KERR