We’re running out of “thirstday” puns. These quotes about education are dedicated to all the proud graduates of May and June….

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
-William Lowe Bryan (10th president of Indiana University)

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
-Bertrand Russell

Education is a process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
-Oscar Wilde

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
-Norman Douglas