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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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