It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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? 

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

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. 

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

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.