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. 

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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? 

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

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

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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.