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.

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.