Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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.

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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? 

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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

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