Quotes

Humans have been educating humans for as long as we care to categorize them as "humans." Let's go for "millions of years." I assume they have been commenting about it ever since they could comment about anything. Let's go with hundreds of thousands of years. Lucky we have it in writing for only a few thousand years.

This is meant as a growing post. Quotes will be added as they appear and appear to be insightful.

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater"
- Gail Godwin (1937- )

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

"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)

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated"
- Alec Bourne (1886-1974)

"College isn't the place to go for ideas"
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading"
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes"
- Norman Douglas (1868 - 1952)

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"
- Alexandre Dumas fils (1824 - 1895)

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly"
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"Kids these days..."
- anonymous. circa 100,000 BC

Disclaimer:
These quotes and attributions are as accurate as one might expect from the Internet.