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

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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

"In the words of Albert Einstein: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own 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.

Einstein is supposed to have remarked that “education is what remains when one has forgotten everything they learned at school”.

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 do know and what you don't.

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.

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

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else’s.

Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because we don’t provide a framework of values to young people, who more and more are searching for it. – Steven Muller, President, Johns Hopkins University True education is training of both the head and the heart. It is better to be uneducated than ill-educated. An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades. Knowledge is piling up facts, wisdom is simplifying them. One could have good grades and a degree and still not learn much. The most important thing one can learn is to ‘learn to learn’. People confuse education with the ability to memorise facts. Educating the mind without morals creates a menace in society.