Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman (1896-1954)
Education is what you have left when you have forgotten everything you learned in school.
Albert Einstein, 1936
Engineering: "How will this work?"
Science:
"Why will this work?"
Management: "When
will this work?"
Liberal Arts: "Do you want
fries with that?"
Jesse N. Schell
I can't give you brains, but I *can* give you a diploma.
The Wizard of Oz
If I'm travelling and I want to go somewhere quiet to work, where do I go? To libraries, of course; there's never anyone in them.
John Irving
If you are given an open book exam, you will forget your
book.
COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home exam, you
will forget where you live.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
It will be a great day for this country when our schools have all the money they want and the military has to run bake sales to buy new weapons.
There is nothing more conservative than an institution with a liberal reputation.
Alan S. Watt
Universities are designed for the convenience of the faculty, not for the convenience of the students.
Adam Smith
University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
What school, college, or lecture bring to men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein