Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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

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

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