The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

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. 

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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

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

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