Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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

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