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.

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? 

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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