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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.

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.

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

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