Useless Education Quotes

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

Nobody goes to college and learns anything.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.