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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

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.

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

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

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.

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

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Repetition is the mother of education.