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

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

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. 

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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?