I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

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.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.