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

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

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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

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.

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