Rewards and punishment are the lowest form 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? 

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. 

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

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

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

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

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

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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