A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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 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.

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