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. 

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? 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

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

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.