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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.