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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

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

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? 

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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.