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.

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

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

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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

Repetition is the mother of education.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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.

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

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. 

That which is evil is soon learned.