That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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.

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

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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.

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