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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.