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

—Heinrich Heine, 1827

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

—Karl Kraus, 1909

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

—Leonard Cohen, 1970

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

—Alice James, 1889

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

—Vladimir Lenin, 1923

Repetition is the mother of education.

—Jean Paul, 1807

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

—George Santayana, 1905

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.

—William Hazlitt, 1821

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

—W.H. Auden, 1947

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

—Erasmus, 1518

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

—H.G. Wells, 1920

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.

—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC