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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper? 

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.