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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

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

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. 

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.

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.