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.
"HEC gets tough on quality of education and career guidance" (The New Times, (December 4, 2022)
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
[The educated differ from the uneducated] as much as the living from the dead.
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.