A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
Richard Pratt , Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990

About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard.
Anonymous

Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Norman Douglas

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham, Baron

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Anonymous

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley