We don’t need no education …
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns
A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.
Bill Cain, “Stand Up Tragedy”
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
G. B. Shaw
A Parable of Modern Research:
Bob has lost his keys in a room which is dark except for one brightly lit corner.
“Why are you looking under the light, you lost them in the dark!”
“I can only see here.”
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
My father, a good man, told me, “Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.”
Erich Maria Remarque
