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. 

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

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

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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.

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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? 

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