Repetition is the mother of education.

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. 

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.