Funny Quotes About Education - Page 3

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
        —Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
        —Mark Twain

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
        —Malcolm S. Forbes

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
        —Lee Rudolph

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
        —Laurence J. Peter

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
        —Kahlil Gibran

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
        —Joseph Stalin

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
        —John W. Gardner

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
        —John Dryden

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
        —Jim Rohn