Norman Douglas Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money. The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. The Education of Henry Adams.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Robert M. Hutchins Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer.