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.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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

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

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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. 

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? 

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

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