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. 

That which is evil is soon learned. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

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.

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

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