“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

I like it, How factual of him ;-) The factoids and other sound bites of politicians and their government schools and media more replace education than cultivate knowledge or a full understanding.

As Mark Twain said, "Never let schooling get in the way of your education".

Damn JFK for starting the federal department of education and getting the federal courts involved in our educational system. It's a real government education system now.

'Education' is a racket now — people acquiring a house-sized debt to get a 'degree' so that they can earn enough to buy a house some day.  They spend the entirety of their lives in debt — that's what is taught and encouraged.  We spend our lives paying rent for our 'credit.'  At the end of life, 95% of one's labors have been spent paying inflationary interest and taxes on perpetual debt.  This is called freedom.  ;-)