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. 

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.

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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? 

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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