Education Quote by Warren Buffett

Buffett flatters journalism the way an investor praises good accounting: not as romance, but as infrastructure. His line turns the press into a public utility for cognition, a kind of mental sewer system you only notice when it breaks. Calling journalists “teachers” is doing heavy work here. It frames the audience not as sovereign consumers but as a “student body” shaped by instruction, nudging responsibility upward: if public understanding is sloppy, look first to the people designing the lesson.

The intent is also self-protective in the most Buffett way. Markets run on information and trust; journalism is part of the machinery that keeps fraud costly, hype legible, and corporate behavior accountable. A “smarter” press isn’t just better at writing - it’s better at asking the second question, reading footnotes, resisting charismatic nonsense, and translating complexity without laundering it into PR.

The subtext quietly rebukes two modern temptations at once: the cynical idea that the public can’t be taught, and the lazy populist sneer that all media is enemy or entertainment. Buffett’s phrasing is optimistic but not naive. “To a degree” admits people don’t read to be enlightened; they read for identity, outrage, habit. Still, he’s arguing that even partial education compounds socially.

Context matters: Buffett came up in a mid-century media ecosystem with gatekeepers and relatively shared facts, then watched that system fracture into partisan channels and algorithmic feeds. This is a plea for competence over clicks - from someone whose entire brand depends on the difference.