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We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
- Rutherford Rogers, librarian at
Yale University, 1985
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than
I did in all my years in college.
- Hubert Humphrey, founder of an
American think-tank
Education is less like filling a bucket than like lighting a fire.
- Anonymous
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B F Skinner, writing in New Scientist magazine
"I dunno", Arthur said. "I forget what I was taught.
I only remember what I've learnt."
- from The Solid Mandala, by Australian novelist Patrick
White (1912-90)
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately,
in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If
it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably
lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
- Lady Bracknell, in Oscar Wilde's play The
Importance of Being Earnest
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), American humorist
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- George W Bush, explaining his policy
of Compassionate Conservatism
The future will be better tomorrow.
- George W Bush
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
- Official motto of the United Negro College Fund
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind
is being very wasteful. How true that is!
- Dan Quayle, Vice-President to President
George Bush Snr,
addressing the United Negro College Fund in 1989.
In 1991, Quayle was awarded an IgNobel
Prize in the field of Education.
I have made good judgements in the past. I have
made good judgements in the future.
- Dan Quayle
I stand by all the mis-statements that I've made.
- Dan Quayle
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