Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Norman Douglas 

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner 

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham, Baron 

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)  - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine 

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Jimmy Connors 

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Anonymous 

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley