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The information contained herein is intended as a guide only.  The AUPGSA does not accept responsibility for faulty or obsolete information.  Your feedback is always welcome at pgsa@adelaide.edu.au.

 

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We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Rutherford Rogers, librarian at Yale University, 1985

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.

 - Hubert Humphrey, founder of an American think-tank

Education is less like filling a bucket than like lighting a fire.

- Anonymous 

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B F Skinner, writing in New Scientist magazine

"I dunno", Arthur said. "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I've learnt."

- from The Solid Mandala, by Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-90)

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

- Lady Bracknell, in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest

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

 - Evan Esar (1899-1995), American humorist

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

- George W Bush, explaining his policy of Compassionate Conservatism

The future will be better tomorrow.

- George W Bush 

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

- Official motto of the United Negro College Fund 

What a waste it is to lose one's mind.  Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.  How true that is!

- Dan Quayle, Vice-President to President George Bush Snr,
addressing the United Negro College Fund in 1989.
  In 1991, Quayle was awarded an IgNobel Prize in the field of Education.

I have made good judgements in the past.  I have made good judgements in the future.

- Dan Quayle 

I stand by all the mis-statements that I've made.

- Dan Quayle 

 

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