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

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.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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.

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.