That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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? 

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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