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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.