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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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.

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.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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

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.