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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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 desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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