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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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? 

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.

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

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

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

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

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