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. 

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

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

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

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

Repetition is the mother of education.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

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

That which is evil is soon learned. 

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

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