Repetition is the mother of education.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

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.

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.

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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. 

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.