Education at Pejorative

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” (Albert Einstein)

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inner facts.” (Henry Adams)

"The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. Control of the mind should be taught first. It takes people a long time to learn things because they can't concentrate their minds at will." (Swami Vivekananda)

“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” (G M Trevelyan)

“Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without using his intelligence.” (A E Wiggan)

“Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” (Bertrand Russel)

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B Adams)

“Education is a method by which one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”  (Laurence J Peter)

“Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.” (John M Keynes)

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” (John W Gardner)

"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.” (David F Wallace)

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” (Eric Hoffer)

“[…] public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.” (Irwin Edman)

“Education does not make us smarter, it merely propels us further and faster in the direction of our native abilities; and if one's ability is to make a fool of himself, education can help him do a magnificent job of that.” (Sydney J Harris)