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

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? 

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

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

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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. 

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.

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

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

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