Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Repetition is the mother of education.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

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

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? 

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 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.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

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

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.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.