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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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

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

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.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.