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

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. 

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

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.

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

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

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.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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