In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Quotes
All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCRepetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Anyone 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.
—William Hazlitt, 1821That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889