My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

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