That which is evil is soon learned. 

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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

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

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

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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

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

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

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

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

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