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Karl Kraus Quotes about Education

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus
Success, Education, Wise

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Karl Kraus
Education, Teacher, Pupils
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus
Education, Teacher, Appreciation
Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Karl Kraus
Education, Men, Pockets
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Karl Kraus
Education, Wine, School
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Karl Kraus
Education, Learning, Advice

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

Karl Kraus
Education, Potassium, Cyanide
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

Karl Kraus
Education, Reading, Pride
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Karl Kraus
Education, Children, Doors

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