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

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.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

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

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