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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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