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.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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