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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.