Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
c.1897  Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

-Warren, Earl
  Ruling to declare segregated schools unconstitutional, 17 May.

There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.7.

Humanhistory becomesmoreand morea racebetween education and catastrophe.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  The Outline of History, vol.2, ch.41.

I saw in my own education some of the things which eat the power out of women. Wharton

-West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield
  'Training inTruculence:TheWorkingWomen's College', in The Clarion,14 Feb.

In a political point of view, nothing can possiblyafford greater stability to a popular Government than the education of the people.

-Whitbread, Samuel
  House of Commons,19 Feb.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloomisgone.Thewholetheoryof moderneducationis radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Lady Bracknell.The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.

I can't do with any more education. I was full up years ago.

-Plum
  The Code of theWoosters, ch.1.