"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent."

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Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. — As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165