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.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known.