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

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

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.

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.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.

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. 

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

That which is evil is soon learned.