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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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