It was obvious that insufficient education was a serious handicap.
Education Quotes
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is credited to John Dewey, but the wording is a paraphrase. He expressed the idea in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916) using other words, and the compressed version circulates as if it were a direct quotation. The Einstein line about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is flagged as well.
The sourced entries are less tidy and better. Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1833), called it a tragedy that a man should die ignorant who had the capacity for knowledge. Bertrand Russell argued in Sceptical Essays (1928) that education had become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Eric Hoffer, in Before the Sabbath (1979), wrote that the best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.
This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
I knew that it was only education that was to liberate me and my family from the grips of poverty.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.