A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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

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