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

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

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.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

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.

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

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

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

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

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