A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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.

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.

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

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