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.

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.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

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

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

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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.