Cramming Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“My exam allowed him to show me what he had learned rather than trying to find out what he had not learned. By allowing…

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others…

— Richard Feynman

“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

Reading through the exam and thinking, 'When the f*ck did we learn this?'

— Anonymous

“Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer”

— Oscar Wilde

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

— Anonymous

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

— Terry Pratchett