23 Quotes Against Formal Education
1. "Doubt grows with knowledge." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Click to tweet
2. "People who are over-educated become risk-averse." (Tamara Mellon) Click to tweet
3. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
4. "My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well." (Gary Vaynerchuk) Click to tweet
5. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." (Bertrand Russell) Click to tweet
6. "All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves." (Emma Goldman) Click to tweet
7. "People will pay more to be entertained than educated." (Johnny Carson) Click to tweet
8. "One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated." (Thomas Moore) Click to tweet
9. "If i was educated, i’d be a damn fool." (Bob Marley) Click to tweet
10. "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously." (Charles Kettering) Click to tweet
11. "It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often." (Lincoln Steffens) Click to tweet
12. "Education is a system of imposed ignorance." (Noam Chomsky) Click to tweet
13. "The mere imparting of information is not education." (Carter G. Woodson) Click to tweet
14. "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." (Ivan Illich) Click to tweet
15. "Thank goodness i was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." (Beatrix Potter) Click to tweet
16. "If the primary purpose of school was education, the internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet
17. "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
18. "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." (Michel de Montaigne) Click to tweet
19. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
20. "Steve jobs, bill gates and mark zuckerberg didn’t finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education – i told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet
21. "Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the american people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system." (Richard Mitchell) Click to tweet
22. "I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." (Agatha Christie) Click to tweet
23. "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." (H.L. Mencken) Click to tweet
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