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

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

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

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

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. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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.

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

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

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