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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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

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

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

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

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? 

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

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

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.

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