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

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

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

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.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

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

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

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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.