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 detterent 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

“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

“...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

“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

“Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania for general information. He had doubts about the utility of examinations…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.”

— Jean Webster

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

— Oscar Wilde

“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my…

— Alice Walker

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in…

— Richard Dawkins