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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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? 

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