Education, n, That which discloses to the wise, and disguises from the foolish, their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce 'The Devil's Dictionary'.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
— Ambrose Bierce 'The Devil's Dictionary'
Education is what’s left when you’ve forgotten everything you ever learned.
— Alan Bennett ‘Forty Years On’
I count exams, even for Oxford and Cambridge, as the enemy of education.
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'
The chief enemy of culture, in any school, is always the headmaster.
— Alan Bennett 'The History Boys'
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
— Oscar Wilde
