Education, Evan Esar (1899-1995)

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)

Education, Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

Education, Albert Camus

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Education, Alec Bourne (A Doctor's Creed)

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

- Aleck Bourne (1886-1974), A Doctor's Creed

Education, B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)

Education, William Butler Yeats

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

- William Butler Yeats

Education, Marcel Achard

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

- Marcel Achard (1899-1974)

Education, Henry Brooks Adams

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

Education, William Butler Yeats

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats