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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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

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

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.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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.