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

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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

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.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Repetition is the mother of education.

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

What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?