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You might want to narrow the scope of what you’re looking for a little.

This, but sticking with the ‘school’ and education’ theme for your yearbook…

“People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it’s usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.”

“We got a talk about it at school. There’s lots of stuff most girls can’t do, but you’ve got to pretend they can, so that more of them will.”

— Sexism explained

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.’”

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pbum it on.”

“(Your name here) was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“While I’m still confused and uncertain, it’s on a much higher plane, d’you see, and at least I know I’m bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. We’ve really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance.”

“They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.”

“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

“Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.”

”As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children (as much as they can understand) there are lies-to-bosses (as much as they need to know) lies-to-patients (they won’t worry about what they don’t know) and, for all sorts of reasons, lies-to-ourselves. Lies-to-children is simply a prevalent and neccesary kind of lie. Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn’t quite what they’ve been taught so far. ‘Yes, but you needed to understand that,’ they are told, ‘so that now we can tell you why it isn’t exactly true.’ Teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.”