Repetition is the mother of education.

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? 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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. 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.