That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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.

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? 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

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

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.