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

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.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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? 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.