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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.