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

—Mark Twain, 1897

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

—H.G. Wells, 1920

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

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

—Francis Picabia, 1949

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

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

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

—Vladimir Lenin, 1923

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.

—William Hazlitt, 1821

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

—Ezra Pound, 1934

Repetition is the mother of education.

—Jean Paul, 1807

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? 

—François Rabelais, 1533

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

—Laurence Sterne, 1760