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

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.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

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