Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters.

An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.

Education doesn’t prepare you for the real world.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it’s no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.