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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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

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? 

Repetition is the mother of education.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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