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.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.

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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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.

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

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