Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

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

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

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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