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.

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

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

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.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

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