That which is evil is soon learned. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.