Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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.

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.

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

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

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

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.