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

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

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

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. 

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

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

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

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.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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