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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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.

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.

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.