The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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

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

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

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

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university 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.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you. 

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

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.

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?