The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

—Tom Bodett

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

—Albert Einstein

School’s a weird thing. I’m not sure it works.

—Johnny Depp

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

—Woody Allen

They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

—Richard Yates

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

 —Will Rogers

Education is the progressive discovery of your own ignorance.

—Will Durant

In the schoolroom, her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

—George Eliot

School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

—H.L. Mencken

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

—George Orwell

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

—Edith Ann (Lily Tomlin)

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

—John F. Kennedy

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

– Robert Frost

I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught.

– Winston Churchill

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.

– Baruch Spinoza