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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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? 

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.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.