Notable Quotes

What I enjoy about quotes is the ability of the author to comment on the many aspects of life in succinct phrases.
Here is a Baker’s Dozen of quotations on education for you to ponder:
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
Evan Esar (1899-1995)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
“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 know.”
Anatole France (1844-1924)
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant (1876-1981)
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Alec Bourne
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H. G. Wells (1866-1946), Outline of History (1920)
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
John Ciardi (1916-1986)
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
Plutarch (46 A.D.-120 A.D.), Morals
“It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
Publilius Syrus (100 B.C.), Maxims
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910)