Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education.

The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

I liked being half educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.

I think the world is run by C-students.

University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Nowadays, the illiterates can read and write.