Break Quote by Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

— Evelyn Waugh

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.”

— Evelyn Waugh

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

— William Ralph Inge

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed…

— Norman Cousins

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those…

— Donna Edwards

The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by…

— Frederick Busch

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

— Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what…

— Will Durant

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.

— Proverb

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of…

— Thomas Sowell

More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing…

— Matthew Kelly