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Education

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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

-- B.F. Skinner

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

-- Smith & Jones

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

-- Socrates

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G. M. Trevelyan

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

-- William Arthur Ward

If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.

-- John Watson, University of Canterbury

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

-- Virginia Woolf