some eggplant-alitious quotes

here are a wide variety of quotes on the general topic of education. as you look at these, don't just read them, process them. what do they really mean? and look at who they are quoted by, you might be surprised. also, some of them are controversial... so have some fun with that:)

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.  ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris  

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ~Albert Einstein

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.  ~Author Unknown

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.  What you gain at one end you lose at the other.  It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.  It won't fatten the dog.  ~Mark Twain

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.  ~William Haley

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use?  It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that.  All we need to do is start the war on education.  If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.  ~Leighann Lord

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation.  What they mean is that we go to school longer.  It is not the same thing.  ~Richard Yates

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.  ~Al McGuire      

You can get all A's and still flunk life.  ~Walker Percy  

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty."  You need the balance!  Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what.  Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.  ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail 

so now i have some questions for you:

-which one was your favorite?

-which quotes did you not agree with?

-which quotes did you heartily agree with?

- were there any where you were surprised when you saw who said it?

now don't feel obliged to answer all the questions, you don't even have to answer any of them, you are welcome to say what ever you like. the questions above are to serve as a catalyst to getting you brain working! i cannot wait to see what you write!!!