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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.