The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

That which is evil is soon learned.