That which is evil is soon learned. 

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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? 

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

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form 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. 

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