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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

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

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.