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

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

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

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

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

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. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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.

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

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.