Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

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

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

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