Education.

- February 19, 2007

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell 1872-1970.
A lecture is a process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either. R.K. Rathbun.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann.
Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there. John Roueche.
If a professor can be replaced by a CD-ROM, he/she should be. Jack Wilson.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. Albert Einstein.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. [New York Times, 1931]
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Josephine Tey.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. William Lowe Bryan.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the wardens and the governor. George Bernard Shaw.
I try not to let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.
I learned three important things in college---to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, and to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. Agnes de Mille.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle.
Examinations are formidable even to the best-prepared; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Colton.
If you are given an open-book exam you will forget your book. If you are given a take-home exam you will forget where you live. Variant of Murphy's Law.
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. Philip K. Dick
If you want a track team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot. Anonymous.
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936
Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself. Gilbert Highet.
Four to six weeks in the lab can save you an hour in the library. G.C. Quarderer.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Mark Twain [SL Clemens] 1835-1910.