“That we usually call Education is making man stupid.”

“The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her own school.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“Stupidity, greed, misdirected aggression—or sum it up and call it man.”

Lester del Rey (1915–1993) Novelist, short story writer, editor

“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

“We have fought this war and won it. Now let us not be sanctimonious; nor hypocritical; nor vengeful; nor stupid. Let us make our enemies incapable of ever making war again, let us re-educate them, let us learn to live in peace and justice with all countries and all peoples in this world. To do this we must educate and re-educate. But first we must educate ourselves.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“There’s no drug that’ll make a stupid man smart.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Axis

“Education is the art of making man ethical”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

“Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“[A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist