All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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

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

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. 

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.