Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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.

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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

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.

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? 

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.