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

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.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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. 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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