That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you. 

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