education
n. 1. the method used by societies
to try to prevent their children from coming up with original thoughts. See student.
2. the field that is falling on its face due to its increasing dominance by
psychology. 3. the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
[John Maynard Keynes] 4. Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
[Bertrand Russell] 5. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated
insufficiently to reason incorrectly. [Michel de Montaigne] 6. education consists mainly
in what we have unlearned. [Mark Twain] 7. education is that which remains, if one has
forgotten everything one learned in school. [Albert Einstein] See school,
public school.
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