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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.