Repetition is the mother of education.

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. 

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper? 

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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

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