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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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.

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.

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

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.