The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

Repetition is the mother of 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 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.