Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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? 

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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.