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Cynical Definitions

n. State-controlled manufactory of echoes.

n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The progressive discovery of your ignorance.

Cynical Quotations

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

— Evan Esar

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

— Bertrand Russell

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

— Elbert Hubbard

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

— Laurence J. Peter

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

— Michel de Montaigne

The tendency of abstract thought ... is one of the real dangers of the highest education.

— Mark Pattison

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

We provide higher education to the masses in much the same way that one might provide a ladder to a jellyfish.

— William Ferraiolo

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw