Education...

... is today's Gaz Challenge topic for which I'll snap some found objects and funk them up as usual. All I can say about education is that if I ever want to stop learning things I'll know it's time to hang up my coin belt.

Obligatory Floyd video here.

Here are some education quotes from people much wiser than I. The first and last are my favourites -->


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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from
the foolish their lack of understanding.
~Ambrose Bierce

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm Forbes

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of
children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
~Erich Fromm

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
made school boards.
~Mark Twain

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just
gargle.
~Robert Anthony

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost
always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false,
misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
~Russell Baker

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you
know and what you don't.
~Anatole France

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
~Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~William Butler Yeats

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper or your self-confidence.
~Robert Frost