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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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