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. 

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

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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

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