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.

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. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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.

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

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?