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

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

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. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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 not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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