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

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

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

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.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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. 

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

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.