Repetition is the mother of education.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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. 

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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.

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.

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

What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?