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

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

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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