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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of 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.

Repetition is the mother of education.