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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

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.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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