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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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.

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