Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.

Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

You are an educated man, Old One.'
'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.