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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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.

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

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

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

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