Nowadays To Be Intelligible Is To Be Found Out

Education

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