"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." ― B. F. Skinner Topic(s): Education More From B. F. Skinner "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." "Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless." "I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is." More In Education "Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."― Harry S. Truman "Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated."― Ernest Istook "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."― Woody Allen