A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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