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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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

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.

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.