Quotes

About Education

Education:  What's left when you've forgotten everything you ever learned.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W B Yeats

Ignorance is stupid, but education causes college students.

P J O'Rourke

Most people were more interesting for a bit of education.

Colin Dexter

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

Charles F Kettering

Unfortunately, much CS education today is about how to hack code, not how to reason and use mathematics.

Peter B Henderson, Head of Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Butler University

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

A good education leaves much to be desired.

Alan Gregg

All education is, in a sense, vocational, vocational for living.

Sir John Newsom

He decided that since she couldn't have a husband, there was no harm in her having an education.

Arundhati Roy

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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