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. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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

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

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? 

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

That which is evil is soon learned.