Education is what remains, if one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

-Einstein, Albert
  Out of My LaterYears.

There is much to be said for apathy in education.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
^14  Maurice (published1971), ch.1.

Education is† hanging around until you've caught on.

-Frost, Robert Lee
Recalled on his death, 29  Jan1963.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).

[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).

-Hayek, Friedrich August von
  The Fatal Conceit:  The Errors of Socialism, ch.6.

Education is another sun to the educated.

-Heraclitus   fl.500
Fragment quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol.1 (1951),181, no.134.

College football is a sport that bears thesame relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

-Hubbard, Elbert Green
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Life isn't all beer and skittlesöbut beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  Tom Brown's Schooldays, pt.1, ch.2.

   Science is the reduction of the bewildering diversity of unique events to manageable uniformity within one of a number of symbol systems, and technology is the art of using thesesymbol systemssoastocontrol and organize unique events. Scientific observation is always a viewing of things through the refracting medium of a symbol system, and technological praxis is always handling of things in ways that some symbol system has dictated. Education in science and technology is essentially education on the symbol level.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  In Daedalus, spring issue.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, May. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

That the whole or any part of the education of the people should be in State hands, I go so far as anyone in deprecating† A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government.

It is the business of education to eliminate the influence of parents on the life-chances of the young.

-Musgrove, F(rank)
  The Family, Education and Society.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
INSISTS1934  TheABC of Reading, ch.8.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

-Rogers,Will
TheAutobiography ofWill Rogers (published1949), ch.6.

L'e¤  ducation de l'homme commence a'   sa naissance; avant de parler, avant que d'entendre, il s'instruit de¤  ja'  . A man's education begins when he is born; before speaking, before understanding, he is already teaching himself.

-Rousseau,JeanJacques
  EŁ  mile ou de l'e¤  ducation, pt.1.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  In Praise of Idleness,'Education and Discipline'.

Me having no education, I had to use my brains.

-Shankly, Bill (William)
Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994)

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

-Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
  In New Scientist, 21 May.

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  Of the nobility of Boulogne.Travels through France and Italy.

Soap and education are not as suddenas a massacre, but theyare more deadly in the long run.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  A Curious Dream,'Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation'.