"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
- Henry Brooks Adams, writer
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner, psychologist
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain, writer
"Your learning is useless to you till you have lost your textbooks, burnt your lecture notes, and forgotten the minutiae which you learned by heart for the examination."
- Alfred North Whitehead, philosopher
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